Selbox

Selbox displays a popup windows with a list of choices (one choice per line). The user clicks on one of the lines to select his choice.

This function is only usable in Classic pages related code and is deprecated for code running in version 7 mode.

Syntax

   Selbox CHOICE_LIST Using ANSWER
   Selbox CHOICE_LIST Titled TITLE Using ANSWER

• CHOICE_LIST is a list of string expressions and/or string variables separated by commas. The content of each string is displayed on a different line. The variables can be arrays and a sub-array can be given with the syntax MYARRAY(INDEX1..INDEX2) where ÌNDEX1and ÌNDEX2 are integer expressions giving the index range where the choices should be taken from.
• TITLE is a string expression that contains the title of the popup that appears.
• ANSWER is an variable that returns the line number selected (1 for the first choice, 2 for the second...).

Examples

# Let's decide what to do
  Local Integer MOOD,GOOD_REASONS,REASON
  Local Char REASONS(1..20)
  GOOD_REASONS=func FILL_REASONS(REASONS)
  Selbox "Awful", "Bad", "Average", "Good", "Outstanding"
&   Titled "How do you feel today?" Using MOOD
    If MOOD<2
      Call BAD_MOOD
    Else
      Selbox "I don't know", REASONS(1..GOOD_REASONS)
&     Titled "Why are you OK ?" Using REASON
    Endif
  Endif

Description

Selbox opens a popup with a list of choices. This instruction should be used only to display a box with a finite (small) list of choices.

See also

Endbox, Errbox, Infbox, Qstbox, Wrnbox