How Does One Display A Leadind "-" In A PopUp Menu?

[Rob Cozens]

Morning All,

The SDB Data Dictionary includes a popUp menu listing all legal 
three-character codes designating the characters allowed in the field 
being defined.  Examples:
	" -~" = low-order characters from space to tilde
	"A-z" = low-order alphabetic characters
	"A-Z" = uppercase low-order alphabetic characters
	"a-z" = lowercase low-order alphabetic characters
	"a-ü"  =  lowercase alphabetic characters
	"0-9" = positive numbers
	etc.

My design calls for codes "-09" for negative numbers and "---" for 
record fields that do not contain stack field data (the icon id for a 
button,for example).  However, Revolution refuses to display a popUp 
menuItem that begins with "-".

Is there a workaround for this?

TIA,
-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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