Hi Mike.
I do this already in some "popup" fields I use. (There are reasons I use fields
instead of buttons I won't go into here.)
Depending on the popup, I may have an option like "New Customer..." as the
first line in a list field. For my customers I maintain the last 15 customers
accessed, and I store them between sessions in a local prefs file (each user
needs their own recents). I have a Salesperson popup which behaves a bit
differently. Here I maintain a list of salespersons in an SQL table called
"lists" so that everyone sees the same list of salespersons. If a value is
entered for a salesperson not in the list, I ask the user if they want to add
this salesperson. This gives the user the opportunity to decline in case it is
simply a mistype.
I will often use a rawKeyUp handler to implement a hottype feature. Looks
something like this:
ON rawKeyUp
IF the text of me is empty THEN
exit to top
END IF
wait .5 seconds WITH messages
lock messages
put filterOptions(lSalesPersons) into theSalesPersons
listOptions theSalesPersons
unlock messages
select after me
-- pass rawKeyUp
exit to top
END rawKeyUp
lSalesPersons is script local variable that I populate with the salespersons on
openField. filterOptions returns a list matching salespersons LIKE %<whatever
the user has typed so far>%. listOptions populates the popup field so the user
can select one of the filtered salespersons.
HTH
Bob S
> On Oct 1, 2019, at 06:26 , Mike Kerner via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
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