Thank you Kirk and Miyako! Excellent suggestions I will investigate. Kirk, I am already using the "pop up menu” command in this particular listbox to support various functions. (Super useful) However, I was hoping to use the “built-in” Choice List because It has a nice little dropdown icon that sits at the very right of the Cell, so it clearly indicates rows in this particular column have a dropdown menu available. Also, it is unobtrusive in that it allows the user to type directly in the Cell and only activate the choices menu when needed by clicking on the isolated indicator… I am not sure how to mimic this functionality using “Pop up Menu” of other menu commands. Are there any “tricks” I am missing?
Thanks again for your help! Kirk > On Nov 11, 2019, at 7:50 AM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > Hi Kirk, > I like to create menus the user invokes with a right click for this sort of > thing. > > Enable the On click event in the listbox to catch it anywhere in the column > (let's you create a menu with content specific to the cell, column or row > clicked on) or use the On header click event to open the menu on the > header. > > With this in place I trap the Contextual click and then draw the menu. For > simple menus I use Pop up menu ( > https://doc.4d.com/4Dv18/4D/18/Pop-up-menu.301-4504659.en.html) > > For more involved or hierarchical ones I just create, display and release a > menu using the menu commands. > > Building even fairly complex menus is amazingly fast. It's easy to write a > method to build and display the menu then return the result to the calling > method. > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 12:43 AM rooftop99--- via 4D_Tech < > 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> When creating a ListBox in the 4D form editor it is possible to select a >> single column and then set attributes for Choice List, Required List, and >> Excluded list. This creates drop-down menus in each cell of that column. >> When creating a Listbox column programmatically I don’t see a way to set >> these attributes. Is it possible? The command “Listbox set Property” >> sets other attributes, but not those three. >> >> Bottomline: I am looking for a way through code to create an ad hoc >> choice dropdown in a given column of a Listbox object. How are you folks >> doing this now? >> >> Thanks in advance for your help! >> >> Kirk >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com >> ********************************************************************** > > > > -- > Kirk Brooks > San Francisco, CA > ======================= > > What can be said, can be said clearly, > and what you can’t say, you should shut up about > > *Wittgenstein and the Computer * > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
