st: Re: using dynamic_list_control class

["Sergiy Radyakin" <Radyakin@aoek.uni-hannover.de>]

Hello Zurab,

I am using the file dynamic_list_control.class from Stata's base ADO 
directory as a hint on your question.
Notice comments

// WE MUST KEEP THE GUI CONTROL AND THE CLASS SYSTEM IN SYNC

throughout.

So if I wanted to add an item to a dynamic list I do it like this:

.dlist=.dynamic_list_control.new, dialogname(mydlg2) controlname(tabby2.lb1)
         .dlist.setList, newlist(`"`vars'"')
         .dlist.print

         .mydlg2_dlg.Vars1.Arrpush "Something"
         .mydlg2_dlg.tabby2.lb1.additem "Something"

         .`.dlist.fullListReference'.Arrpush "Something2"
         .`.dlist.fullObjectReference'.additem "Something2"

  classutil drop .dlist


Notice that Vars1 is defined as a dummy list in the dialog file.
You can either address the list directly (as in "Something"), or refer to 
it's fields, containing the full references (as in "Something2").
.dlist.print will display the contents of these fields.

In short, the above code will create a dynamic list object with items from 
local macro vars, and then append two items to the end of the list.

Question to all dialog programmers. What references/tutorials on dialog 
programming and controls are available in the Internet? Google search yields 
hardly a handfull of links :(


Best Regards, Sergiy Radyakin



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zurab Sajaia" <zsajaia@hotmail.com>
To: "statalist" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: st: using dynamic_list_control class



> Dear all,
>
> I'm building a dialog with dynamically changed content and based on 
> earlier discussions on the Statalist came to use dynamic_list_control 
> class.
>
> James Hassell kindly showed how to set the list interactively, and now I'm 
> trying to use other methods of the class, namely appending or deleting an 
> item.
>
> My problem is that whenever the new instant is created and linked to the 
> listbox, contents of the list are cleared:
>
> dlist = .dynamic_list_control.new , dialogname(d1) 
> controlname(main.lb_level)
>
> .set method (which is called by .new) has "._clearList" at the end that 
> clears the list. This was not an issue in the example given by James 
> because he was then redefining the new list by:
>
> .dlist.setList, newlist(`levels')
>
> but if I need to add (or drop) one item only this seems to be a problem:
> .dlist.appendItem, item("something") will result in list containing just 
> "something".
>
> I'd appreciate much any advice what to change (if Im doing something 
> wrong)
>
> Thanks,
> Zurab
>
>
>
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