[archive] Combo Box

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 November 2005]

I am new to AcuCobol and I am trying to use a drop list and display information in it from a file. Probably and easy task but I have not found the right direction to take.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Each time you read a record from your file, just modify the drop list like so.
MODIFY MY-LIST, ITEM-TO-ADD RECORD

You can also give it a default value by doing something like this
MODIFY MY-LIST, VALUE WHATEVER-THE-DEFAULT-IS

Shaun

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 23 November 2005]

I am new to AcuCobol and I am trying to use a drop list and display information in it from a file. Probably and easy task but I have not found the right direction to take.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

As you are new to Acucobol, you may not know about PAGED list boxes.

They allow you to have a list for a file that contains thousands or even millions of records. The list box only shows you a 'window' of x records (depending on it's size) that you can scroll up and down.

Unfortunately, however, you cannot use it as a 'drop-list'.

Apart from that it is a very useful way to view records in a very large file (and it has a search facility too).