Re: FaceSpan Popups
Re: FaceSpan Popups
- Subject: Re: FaceSpan Popups
- From: Mike Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:16:29 -0500
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I'm trying to get popup menus to work properly within FaceSpan and
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figure I may have come across a bug or at the very least an
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ideosyncracy. I want to store the textual value of the popup into a
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storage item. Unfortunately, there is no direct way so I first tried
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to capture the selection index and got nasty results.
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set intTemp to item 1 (of selection of popup "popThePopup")
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This gives an error even if I rewrite it to "copy" syntax. It does
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work if I split this into two lines.
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I also found some other problems with regards to FaceSpan's storage
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items. With the list of integers supplied by the selection i.e. {3}.
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I cannot directly access the storage item as a list, I must first
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assign it to a temporary variable then access the list.
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Am I missing something or is this just a wart and live with it?
It's just a wart; live with it. :)
The FaceSpan-digest list has had some discussion on this topic and on the safety of changing storage items at runtime. You might find either of those useful. An archive from the ESG Labs Snippets page if you have FileMaker 4 or higher.
Hope this helps,
Mike Miller
ESG Labs
http://www.esglabs.com/
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