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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Need scrolling "radio menu"
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.062312.4244@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 4 Jan 90 06:23:12 GMT
Reply-To: dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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I am working on a stack that has two long lists of items (one with
84 items and the other with 128 items).  The user picks one item
out of the list to use as the current value.

I would like to implement each of these as a scrolling list with
the "current" item hilited in some way.  I tried using a scrolling
field with locked text, but I could only have one hilited selection
on the card at a time, and I need to be able to have a hilited line
in each list.

Is there a better way to do what I want?  I think these lists are
really too long for something like a popup menu, and I don't like
the idea of a scrolling popup list (i.e., DoMenu from Developer's
Stack).

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David Elliott
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