List Box

[cyoung315]

Can someone please assist me with a list box in Auto Play 4? What I need is pretty simple:

1. list box to be displayed after clicking a button (hidden before a click)
2. scrolling through the box to a selected item (this one I know)
3. each item in the box is capable of being linked to "INDIVIDUAL" files (AVI, PDF....)in the Distribution folder when clicked.

Thank you very much for your help!

Chris

[Adam]

Re: List Box

Chris,

1) On Page -> Initialize include a Page.HideObject("ListBox1") for example
then on the button that you want to show the listbox include a Page.ShowObject("ListBox1")

2) In the ListBox settings simply turn on the "Vertical Scrollbar" option.

3) When you add each item to the list use this format
name that will be displayed::%SrcDir%\myfile.ext (notice the '::' to assign value data to an item in the list)
Then when you access the item use a ListBox.GetItemData(index)

This should solve all of your problems

[cyoung315]

Re: List Box

Adam, I have tried this several times and I just can't get it to work. Every item in the box is treated as 1 Object, so I can never select one or the other. Also, the full path of the file is displayed in the listbox.
Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks

[Lorne]

Re: List Box

If you're adding more than one item at a time, make sure you separate them with the appropriate delimiter (;; by default).

If you want the path to be hidden, and have something else appear in the list box instead, then separate the visible text and the path with :: like this:

This will appear in the list box::this won't

For an example of this in use, see Adding items to a list box (with data) in the Command Reference.

(Note: there's a typo on that page that will be fixed in the next version...in the second sentence, where it says "global list" it should say "List Box Object.")

[Worm]

Re: List Box

Here's an example

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