[EXTERNAL]Icon values in a droplist

[Brian A O'Sullivan]

Hi Martin,
I have no experience working with js remote forms. The online help info on the style() function mentions some special JavaScript text-escape-codes so the function itself must work, but you may need to make some adjustments for referring to the icon identifiers.

Best regards,

Brian A. O'Sullivan


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Thanks Brian.Will this work in a js remote form?
Rgds, Martin O.

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  On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 18:30, Brian A O'Sullivan via omnisdev-en<omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:   Hi Martin,
I've used two different approaches over the years:

1. store the iconid as an integer in the list, and set the display field calculation to convert it to the icon using style():
        Do myList.$cols.$add('iconid',kInteger,k32bitint)
        Calculate myList.iconid as 651+k32x32  ;; add the k-constant for icon-size to the iconid

Then in the list display, set the $calculation for the display column to include style(kEscBmp,myList.iconid)

2. store the icon as styled-text directly in the list:
        Do myList.$cols.$add('iconTxt',kCharacter,kSimplechar,100)
        Calculate myList.iconTxt as style(kEscBmp,651+k32x32)

Then in the list display, set the $calculation to refer to myList.iconTxt

Best regards,

Brian A. O'Sullivan
Axalta Coating Systems, Glen Mills, PA; USA


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Subject: [EXTERNAL]Icon values in a droplist

Hi Listers,I wish to display icons in a droplist for end user to select.How do I define a variable list to include a column to store the value of icons?What would be the column data type?What would be the value to store the icons?
Kind regards, Martin O.
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