combobox in a background group

[Ken Ray]

On 8/30/04 9:41 AM, "Jan Schenkel" <janschenkel at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> in other words, sharing a combobox in few cards,
>> how to put different values on each card ?
>> 
>> thanks for a help, or pointing to the documentation,
>> i'm stuck :-(
>> 
>> regards, thierry
>> 
> 
> Bonjour Thierry,
> 
> In this case, I'd add a hidden field to contain the
> actual data, then copy the value from the combobox
> into that field on closeField, and set the combobox
> label to the text of the hidden field on preOpenCard
> in the background group script.

I was thinking the same thing, but using a custom property of the card
instead of a field.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com