OpenEuphoria

Re: DropDownList

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Aug 16, 2001
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On Thursday 16 August 2001 16:59, George Walters wrote:
>
> Your program snipit looks like it would work fine if the dropdownlist field
> width could be larger than the coded field width. Can't see how to do
> this.. The code in the field would be like 'n30' or 'n60' , so the editText
> field only should be 3-6 chars but the descriptive text for this could be
> much larger (usually about 15). The short code would be used in the DB and
> on internal reports, the long on invoices, statements, etc.

Why not just leave the descriptive text in the dropdown?
If a person chooses "2% 10, Net 30", then that will stay on the screen, 
but your db could store a code, say: 3,  in the terms column. 

When you later print reports, etc, you can expand that 3 to read anything 
you want -  "10n30", or "2% discount if paid within ten working 
days, net 30 days from date of invoice".

Regards,
Irv