Assigning Text values to an Option Variable

cloudnine

How do you guys do assigning of text values to an Option variable...Thanks

alwaysguna

If You want to add text then you need to update the option string of the variable

cloudnine

What i want to do is during runtime...I want to assign a set of texts that will serve as option one i choose another option...Thanks

alwaysguna

If you want to add dynamically then i think its not possible

Thomas_Hviid_Thorn

Hej cloudnine,

you have to make a repeat to find the appropriate option-value:

  idx : integer;
  found : Boolean;
  OptText : Text(30);
  Options : "Zero,One,Two,Three,Four";

  OptText := 'Three';
  idx := 0;
  REPEAT
    Options := idx;
    idx += 1;
    found := FORMAT(Options,0,'<text>') = OptText;
  UNTIL (found)
         OR (DELCHR(FORMAT(Options,0,'<text>'),'=','0123456789') = '');

The
DELCHR(FORMAT(Options,0,'<text>'),'=','0123456789') = ''
is used to stop the loop, if there is no match.
If Options = 5 will make FORMAT(Options,0,'<text>') = '5'

I hope it'll be helpfull for you.

matteo_montanari

cloudnine wrote:

What i want to do is during runtime...I want to assign a set of texts that will serve as option one i choose another option...Thanks

Do you want to update a option field from a user text?

something like:

EVALUATE(Option, Text);

?

Matteo

Thomas_Hviid_Thorn

... another comment:

If you're using 3.7 or 4.0 and your option-variable is a table field, you may use RecordRef/FieldRef and the functionality here to make the code nicer.

I have no code example on that, though. Here you're on you own

cloudnine

Eto,

That's most likely i want to do...update an option variable based on the user text...for example i entered "test" in text variable...the value of option variable should be "test1, test2, test3"...then if i entered "testing" in text variable...the value of option variable should be "testing1, testing2, testing3"...would that be possible...How is it implemented in C/SIDE...Thanks...

kine

You can use some table into which you add the strings and open it in Lookup form for the user. No way through option type...