Options work like select boxes on web pages?

[jesse]

The reason I ask is I need to be able to have a select box like on a webpage where
it has a Username title and userid value and a coded value like this:

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<option value="UserID">Username</option>

The reason I need to have a value and a display title
is because I need to do an insert based on the UserID into a database table.

The code I am using now to populate the option list is this:

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put revDataFromQuery(tab ,cr ,dbID ,tSQL) into tList
revCLoseDatabase(dbID)

if tList contains "revdberr" then return ""
set the rowDelimiter to cr
# the New... function below isn't implemented yet
put tList & cr & "-" into tList
set the text of button "Event" to tList

[Janschenkel]

You can use 'tags' for this. The menu specification is a list of lines that look like this:

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[ <modifiers> ] <label> [ '|' <tag> ] 

SZo an optional set of modifiers, followed by the label of the menu item, optionally followed by a tag. The label is displayed and the tag is used as the parameter for the menupick message instead of the label.
You can use this for multi-lingual applications as well as your use case of hiding ID's.

HTH,

Jan Schenkel.

[jesse]

Thanks Jan. I'll read up on tags sounds like a good option for me.