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| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
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V1.1 SSB When the cursor is over a field, the middle-button menu includes Expand Field. This is a most wonderful feature for enumerated types, as it displays all the legal choices. You can select one, and when you exit the Expand Field box the value is placed in the field. But when the datatype is a SET OF enumeration, you can only use the feature once. If you use it again, the second value you selected is the only one in the field. Please consider having the select feature append the selected option to the text already in the field, instead of replacing it. If I really want to replace the text the pending delete feature of DECwindows makes it easy to delete it first. This would let me provide multiple values by selecting one, typing a comma, and selecting another. Another option perhaps more suited to specifying values for a Set datatype would be to allow multiple values to be selected from the list in the Expand Values box, using the Shift-Click paradigm. Then when the box is exited, all the selected values would appear in the field, separated by commas. This would be veru convenient.
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| 890.1 | re expand field and multiple selection | VERNA::V_GILBERT | Tue Apr 16 1991 13:28 | 28 | |
Richard,
Currently, for a SET OF enumeration, if you MB2 over the text widget field,
you get the list of enumerations and can select one.
However if you click MB2 over the presentation name field, you can add an
additional member field for the SETOF or you can get a longer text widget
to enter the entire SETOF in one widget (ala FCL {f1, f2, f3}
For example if privileges is SETOF Enumeration
Privileges |
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If I press MB2 in text widget I get a list of all valid enumerations and
can select one.
If I press MB2 over Privileges, I can add another text widget or expand the
size of the text widget.
One additional members are added, each must be clicked on individually to
select one of the enumerated values.
If time permits, for V1.2 I would certainly like to allow for multiple
selection from the list of enumerated values.
Hope this helps.
Verna
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| 890.2 | CLOSED: It's in there! | COOKIE::KITTELL | Richard - Architected Info Mgmt | Tue Apr 16 1991 19:29 | 19 |
>However if you click MB2 over the presentation name field, you can add an
>additional member field for the SETOF or you can get a longer text widget
>to enter the entire SETOF in one widget (ala FCL {f1, f2, f3}
Verna,
I missed the trick of holding MB2 over the presentation name instead of
the text widget. That satisfies my request nicely. Thanks.
>If time permits, for V1.2 I would certainly like to allow for multiple
>selection from the list of enumerated values.
That would be nice, but the function you pointed out to me really takes
care of it.
Thanks,
Richard
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