Use an Option-field in a dialog??

giver

I regulary use dialogs to obtain data from the user. The way I use this is like this:
EntryForm.Open('some Text #1###');
EntryForm.INPUT(1,Var1);

Now I need to obtain the value of an Option-field. I've seen it being used, but can't remember exactly how. I'm not doing these kind of things every day.

Can someone help me a little?

Thanks,

Giver

MTC

You need to use STRMENU

SPost29

try a variation of this:


win.OPEN('choose #1################',SlsHdr."Document Type");
win.INPUT(1,SlsHdr."Document Type");
MESSAGE(FORMAT(SlsHdr."Document Type"));

Steve

giver

Thank you both. You helped me a lot.
Steve, do you have a suggestion to get a "OK" button in the dialog?

Giver

SPost29

For an OK button you need to create a form.

When I use input dialogs I usually add some verbage something like
'Please click enter after selection'

giver

SPost29 wrote:

For an OK button you need to create a form.

Okay, that's what I thought. Still a good tip, thanks.

giver

You need to use STRMENU

I like the face of this solution, but I'm strugling to get extra text into the dialog pop-up.

This is my code:
OptionField := DIALOG.STRMENU(optiontext);

I only get my option-values shown in the dialog, I would like to get my question also there.

There must also be a possibility to obtain the "OptionText" out of the optionstring of the field. The C/Side Ref Guide only mentiones this text to be programmed as Text-Constant.

Giver