Building a dynamic menu with dialog and a database

EnderFFX · Post by **EnderFFX** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:46 pm

I have no problems pulling information from an Access database. I have a lot of problems inserting data into a dialog box. Is this possible?

Let me give a real simple example of what I want to do.

I have an array of elements, each element has a name. I want to put each of those elements into a dialog box, and make each of those elements a button.

Is there code out there for doing this?

Is it possible to run a loop within the Dialog> EndDialog> statements?

I've scrapped my code a couple of times and I'm going to try again!

Any suggestions would be great.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:56 pm

I can't think of a way to do that with buttons off the top of my head, but can I ask a silly question - why can't you use a combobox or listbox instead? This can be dynamically filled with your array. The user just selects the item rather then presses a button .... ?

EnderFFX · Post by **EnderFFX** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:20 pm

I'll give you a silly response, I didn't think of it. That makes sense, I'll have to try it and see what I can come up with. Thank you!

mtettmar wrote:I can't think of a way to do that with buttons off the top of my head, but can I ask a silly question - why can't you use a combobox or listbox instead? This can be dynamically filled with your array. The user just selects the item rather then presses a button .... ?

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:27 pm

Hello,
A combo or listbox might be the best solution for this application, they are very handy. But I wanted to point out that dynamic dialog boxes can be built by writing and calling a script from within a script. I posted an example using buttons for user mydave back in February of this year.
Later,
Dick