I'm porting my old FaceSpan apps (FaceSpan is a GUI-maker) to AS Studio. This is going well, but I miss a view FS conventions.
For one thing, it was easy to dynamically populate a popup button using a "set contents of popup 'foo' to 'whatever'." Also, FS offered a "list view" box. Items entered into the box did not need to be coerced from string to list. Any string followed by a return was treated as a single list item - making it super easy to add full names to a list.
Here's what I'm trying to achieve. I have a "Send Wire" app that makes it simple to send stories to the Associated Press news wires (I work for a newspaper). In the main window, I have a "Staff" popup with the names of our staff writers. In the Preferences window for Send Wire, I have a list box that allows for easy addition and subtraction to the Staff popup. (Reporters have a tendency to come and go.)
I'm stumped as to how to achieve the same in AS Studio. Dynamically dding items to an AS Studio popup is a pain. AFAIK, I have to "make" each popup item. Also, I'm unsure what to use in place of the FS list box for the Preferences staff additions and deletions. AS Studio text view items don't coerce well from string to list (each letter is coerced as an individual list item).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a way to "set contents of popup button "foo" ? And is there a "list view" component to AS Studio of which I'm unaware? (Is the browser view what I'm looking for? I'll examine that now.)
Thanks for any and all advice.
Jim
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