Hello everyone,
I have a reasonably easy question (for anyone with the answer). I am building a form where I would like to be able to display a dynamic summary of information that I've collected from some Xdialog boxes (it's a submission form). Basically what I'm trying to do is display some dynamic text with a scroll bar - very much like a list box. The only differnce is, I don't want to be able to make a selection in this box (no highlights), but I do still want to be able to use the scroll bar.
At the moment I collect some info from a user through an Xdialog box and put it into an array, which is then dumped into a CRLF delimited string variable (where I add some lines and formattiing) and then I feed it into the list box choices variable. So far, the box displays everything I want, but it allows selections which I don't want. If I make it a read only and no Tab stop control, for some reason the Scroll bar becomes in active.
I need to be able to scroll because the size of the array which collects the information from the Xdialog box is extremely variable (1 to 50 lines) depending on how many submissions are being made (The array collects names). I've also looked at just using a normal text box attached to a variable, but it doesn't seem that you can attach any scroll bars to it.
Incidentally does anyone know if you can view or edit the underlying Xbasic to a form. I've noticed when a form is first created using the Genie you have the option of viewing the Xbasic, but then this option doesn't seem to be available ever again afterwards? Although the selection isn't an overall problem (it doesn't affect anything), it does give the user a false expectation that something may happen if they happen to select one of the options.
By the way I'm using Version 5.
If anyone can answer my seemingly simple question, I am entirely grateful.
I have a reasonably easy question (for anyone with the answer). I am building a form where I would like to be able to display a dynamic summary of information that I've collected from some Xdialog boxes (it's a submission form). Basically what I'm trying to do is display some dynamic text with a scroll bar - very much like a list box. The only differnce is, I don't want to be able to make a selection in this box (no highlights), but I do still want to be able to use the scroll bar.
At the moment I collect some info from a user through an Xdialog box and put it into an array, which is then dumped into a CRLF delimited string variable (where I add some lines and formattiing) and then I feed it into the list box choices variable. So far, the box displays everything I want, but it allows selections which I don't want. If I make it a read only and no Tab stop control, for some reason the Scroll bar becomes in active.
I need to be able to scroll because the size of the array which collects the information from the Xdialog box is extremely variable (1 to 50 lines) depending on how many submissions are being made (The array collects names). I've also looked at just using a normal text box attached to a variable, but it doesn't seem that you can attach any scroll bars to it.
Incidentally does anyone know if you can view or edit the underlying Xbasic to a form. I've noticed when a form is first created using the Genie you have the option of viewing the Xbasic, but then this option doesn't seem to be available ever again afterwards? Although the selection isn't an overall problem (it doesn't affect anything), it does give the user a false expectation that something may happen if they happen to select one of the options.
By the way I'm using Version 5.
If anyone can answer my seemingly simple question, I am entirely grateful.
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