Re: [Pythoncard-users] ComboBox- Allows text entry, then ignores it?

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

At 11:38 12/09/2004 -0400, Gregory Pi=F1ero wrote:

>Kevin,
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>Your answer makes sense.  I guess all I really want to do is disable text=
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>entry so the user must choose one of the list items.  I'm wondering  if=20
>I'm using the wrong GUI component?  For example on a web form, a drop-down=
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>box type thing only presents the preset choices, so I just want a GUI=20
>version of that type of webform thing.
>
>I'll  play with the resource editor a bit, see if there's something that=20
>already works like that.  Otherwise I'll look up how to just disable text=
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>entry.

Sounds like you just need a simple List component - fill in the items and=20
they can only choose one of them ...

btw - don't be misled by the "minimallist" sample - that's really a=20
minimalmulticolumnlist
I don't think there is a simple sample of a basic list - though the 'list=20
of samples' in the "Sample Launcher" is one.

-- Alex.