SOLVED - How do I get the current selection of a combobox

[admin12]

The following code draws an error and tells me no such object exists around "fldGender"

Now fldGender is a combo box where you can either choose Male or Female.

Here is the code:

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--Now save to CandidateCC

put the text of field "MonthEntry" &space & the text of field "DayEntry" &comma & space & the text of field "YearEntry" into DOB

--answer DOB

put "INSERT INTO candidatecc (CandidateCCID,FirstName,MiddleName,SurName,Gender,DOB,EmailAddr,PrimTele,ecn,skype,promo_code) VALUES ("&CandidateCCID & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldFirstName" &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldMiddleName" &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldSurName" &numtochar(39) & "," & the text of field "fldGender" &numtochar(39) &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) &DOB &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldEmailAddr" &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldPhoneNum" &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldEmergencyNum" &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldSkype" &numtochar(39) & "," &numtochar(39) & the text of field "fldPromoCode" &numtochar(39) & "," & ")" into theQuery3

answer theQuery3

revExecuteSQL dbID, (theQuery3)

answer "Information saved"

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Can anyone help me spot the problem or is there a different way to deal with a combo box (other than 'the text of field "fldGender"')

Thanks.

Mike

[dglass]

The text of a combobox is the list of options. The label is the text of the selection, or whatever was typed into the entry area.

[bn]

Hi Mike,

a combobox is a button, not a field. To get at the current selection of a combobox use the menuhistory. It is a number corresponding to the line number of the text of the button "myComboboxButton"

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on mouseUp
   put line (the menuhistory of btn "gender") of the text of btn "gender" into field 1
end mouseUp

or a little shorter:

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on mouseUp
put line (the menuhistory of btn "gender")  of btn "gender" into field 1
end mouseUp

You might want to put numtochar(39) into a variable / constant. It saves a lot of typing and makes your code easier to read.

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put numtochar (39) into SQ

It would also be helpful for others that just read the topic of your post if it would be more specific. Like: "How do I get the current selection of a combobox" or somesuch.

Kind regards

Bernd

[admin12]

Great ideas. Still not fixed.

Mike

[admin12]

Still not fixed, but I will try the above and see what happens.

How would I populate the combobox with saved data from the database. I can populate all the other fields, but comboboxes seem to elude me.

So, for example,

set the itemDel to tab
repeat for each line myLine in theData
put item 1 of myLine into field "fldCityBirth"
put item 2 of myLine into field "Country1"
put item 3 of myLine into field "Country2"
put item 4 of myLine into field "Country3"
put item 5 of myLine into field "fldVidLink"
put item 6 of myLine into field "fldRef1"
put item 7 of myLine into field "fldRef2"
put item 8 of myLine into field "fldRef3"
put item 9 of myLine into field "fldCert"
put item 10 of myLine into field "fldPassBioPage"
put item 11 of myLine into field "fldProofSS"
put item 12 of myLine into field "fldPoliceBC"
put item 13 of myLine into field "fldTandC"
put item 14 of myLine into field "cmbIntNotes"
put item 15 of myLine into field "fldContract"

end repeat

populates the fields with existing data after I read it from the database with a SELECT query.

However, the Countries are not fields, but comboboxes. How do I populate those properly?

I also tried:

put item 2 of myLine into the text of btn "Country1"

and

put item 2 of myLine into btn "Country1"

Neither worked?

Mike

[Klaus]

Hi Mike,

you are looking for the LABEL property!
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set the label of btn "Country1" to item 2 of myLine
...


Best

Klaus

[admin12]

That did it. Thank you.

Mike