Dialog Programming, Opus II
Thanks to James Hassell, I have made significant progress in my dialog
programming. However, I am not clear on what can and cannot be done
in a "heavyweight i-action," it being very much a trial and error
undertaking. Once can change labels and hide/disable controls. Using
James's example above once can populate lists in the PREINIT stage of
dialog creation. What I would like to do is populate a second list
following user selection of a variable. That list would be populated
with the results of a levelsof. I have tried to extend James's
example with a second ado, but I don't seem to be able to change the
contents of a list class once the dialog box has been created. Am I
correct in thinking that once a dialog box has been initialized that
the only changes that can be made are to the interaction with the
controls themselves, not to the *contents* of the controls?
I see a way around this by creating a new dialog box to create and do
the picking of levels. This would be similar in function to the ifin
expression builder dialog. Am I correct in assuming that this would
be a viable alternative? Are there any caveats?
Many thanks. Although I have thoroughly read the dialog and class
sections, it is not always obvious how to use them to accomplish
specific tasks.
DCE
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