Dynamically Building an Option list

[Stephen Barncard]

>I wish I could recall my question!... was trying
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>  put zzz into the text of button "zzzz"
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>but it is much simpler...
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>here's breadboard example...
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>ON mouseUp
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>     put empty into userList

(not needed)

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>     open file "D:\users.txt" for read
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>     read from file "D:\users.txt"  until EOF
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>     put it into userList
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>     close file "D:\users.txt"
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>     ----xxxxxxxx----put userList into button "Users"

      set the text of button "Users" to userList

(assuming that userlist is a return delimited list)

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>END mouseUp
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much simpler to do in one line

set the text of btn "userList" to URL "file:C:\path\to\my\file\USERLIST.txt"


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stephen barncard
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