Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

[Digitaled]

I have a few drop down lists and i would like to add a event script to each item in the list. I can not see how to do this.

Like the drop down list is

test 1 when clicked on it runs a script to make it run
test 2 when clicked on it runs a script to make it run
test 3 when clicked on it runs a script to make it run
test 4 when clicked on it runs a script to make it run

How do i attach a event script to each drop down list item???

Thanks

[Cheryl Lemire]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

I do not know of a way to directly do that, however, indirectly you could program the OnChange or OnDepart event of the object.

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Ed,

Using Action Scripting look under Scripts -> Display a List of Scripts.

Will that do what you want?

ba

[popellis]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Digitaled

What Bob said you could create a "button" on your form to open a picklist of scripts that the user can run, You can edit this picklist to present the user with,Test1, Test2, Test3, test4,as the names for the underlying scripts. As Bob said this is done with "action scripting" and "Display a pick-list of scripts" There was a turbo-Demo of this awhile back, but it seems unfortunately all these referances keep disappearing.I have enclosed the TurboDemo. Just Unzip and run the ScriptPickList.htm file in your browser.

Hope this helps

[Digitaled]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Thats different not the way i want it to work.

What is the point of having a drop down list box if i can not program each item in the list to do something?

I need to add this

sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\test.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)

to each item in the drop down list.. no way to do that so when each is clicked on it will run this scropt..?

Digitaled

What Bob said you could create a "button" on your form to open a picklist of scripts that the user can run, You can edit this picklist to present the user with,Test1, Test2, Test3, test4,as the names for the underlying scripts. As Bob said this is done with "action scripting" and "Display a pick-list of scripts" There was a turbo-Demo of this awhile back, but it seems unfortunately all these referances keep disappearing.I have enclosed the TurboDemo. Just Unzip and run the ScriptPickList.htm file in your browser.

Hope this helps

[Cheryl Lemire]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Is programming the OnChange event not an option?

[Digitaled]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Guess i do not know how to do that..?

If i have say 6 items in the drop down like

test 1
test 2
test 3
test 4
test 5
test 6

how do i add this code to each one to make it run when clicked on?
The code will be the same for all of them except for a name change on each one.

Is programming the OnChange event not an option?

[G Gabriel]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

I think you are using the wrong terminology:
A "drop down list" refers to, at least in the context of alpha, a list that will show when you are entering a value in a field in a table.

For example: a drop down list showing the US States: Alabama, Alaska etc when you are adding a record that has a field for the State, then you choose one of those.

What you need, is not a "drop down list", but rather a "Custom Toolbar".
Go to the Code tab and follow the instructions on creating a custom toolbar.

[Cheryl Lemire]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Hi Ed,

Tell us exactly what it is you want to happen based on the different choices. If text 1 then do 'what', if text 2 then do 'what'

I would say that you would create a UDF, probably a select....case statement with the different choices.

[Digitaled]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Here is what it looks like.
Its a drop down list on a form. with buttons on both side of it.



Needs to run.

test 1 sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\test-1.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)
test 2 sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\test-2.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)
test 3 sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\test-3.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)
test 4 sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\test-4.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)
test 5 sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\test-5.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)

I think you are using the wrong terminology:
A "drop down list" refers to, at least in the context of alpha, a list that will show when you are entering a value in a field in a table.

For example: a drop down list showing the US States: Alabama, Alaska etc when you are adding a record that has a field for the State, then you choose one of those.

What you need, is not a "drop down list", but rather a "Custom Toolbar".
Go to the Code tab and follow the instructions on creating a custom toolbar.

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

A dropdown like you show doesn't have an event for "first choice selected", "second choice selected", etc. Use Cheryl's suggestion and code the onchange event for whatever object is represented by the dropdown.

To get to the onchange event, edit the form, right click on the dropdown, choose events, select onchange, and enter something like

select
case o_sizes.value = "Test 1"
script_play("Name of a script")
'or you could have the script itself here (with an end statement, of course)

case o_sizes.value = "Test2"
script_play("Name of aother script")

case o_sizes.value = "Test3"
script_play("Name of aother script")

case o_sizes.value = "Test4"
script_play("Name of aother script")

case o_sizes.value = "Test5"
script_play("Name of aother script")

end select

In the above, o_sizes is the object name of the dropdown.

[Digitaled]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Ok i did this but it will not work?

select
case o_sizes.value = "Test 1"
script_play("sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test1.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)
'or you could have the script itself here (with an end statement, of course)

case o_sizes.value = "Test2"
script_play("sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test2.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)

case o_sizes.value = "Test3"
script_play("sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test3.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)

case o_sizes.value = "Test4"
script_play("sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test4.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)

case o_sizes.value = "Test5"
script_play("sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test5.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1))

end select

A dropdown like you show doesn't have an event for "first choice selected", "second choice selected", etc. Use Cheryl's suggestion and code the onchange event for whatever object is represented by the dropdown.

To get to the onchange event, edit the form, right click on the dropdown, choose events, select onchange, and enter something like

select
case o_sizes.value = "Test 1"
script_play("Name of a script")
'or you could have the script itself here (with an end statement, of course)

case o_sizes.value = "Test2"
script_play("Name of aother script")

case o_sizes.value = "Test3"
script_play("Name of aother script")

case o_sizes.value = "Test4"
script_play("Name of aother script")

case o_sizes.value = "Test5"
script_play("Name of aother script")

end select

In the above, o_sizes is the object name of the dropdown.

[Cheryl Lemire]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

Hi Ed,

 script_play(sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test1.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)
'

You need to create a script, say test1, that script includes:

 sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test1.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)
'

Then in your OnChange event you have:

 script_play("test1")
'

Repeat the process for the others. Create a script for each test2, test3, etc and then in the script_play("test2"), script_play("test3"), etc

Later: OR you can

select
case o_sizes.value = "Test 1"
script_play("Name of a script")
'or you could have the script itself here (with an end statement, of course)

The above would become:

select
case o_sizes.value = "Test 1"
sys_shell("C:\testA\testB\Test1.exe C:\testA\testB\Trigger.jpg",1)

[G Gabriel]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

OK.. One more time:
What you just showed is what I described. These are choices for a field in a form,i.e. these are values for that field in a table.

If you choose test 1, the value of that field in the table will change to test 1. If you choose test 2, the value will change to test 2 etc.

Is that what you want to do? both change the value in the field and run a script? or do you simply want to run script1 if the choice is test1, script2 if the choice is test2 and so on?

If you want the latter, there are several ways to do the, the easiest, most convenient, most conventional before getting into the aesoteric, is to create a Custom Toolbar, not to place these values in a field in a table.

[G Gabriel]

Re: Need help how can i add a script to drop down links

I see that, suddenly there is a confluent of responses and too much information overload that is bound to cause you more confusion than clarification, so I will check out.