Re: pop-up-window

Quoting Ruchi Patel... > > I am in the process of developing some pop-up-windows in 4gl. It works > beautiful but only problem is that if the table is over 100 rows then it > is very tedious to find what you are lookingfor. I would like to know > how other sites designed the pop-up-window so they can narrow the search? > > Currently, user press CTRL-E to display pop-up window. The items in window > are vendor code and name. There are many ways to handle to narrow your > search. But I like to hear how other sites handle it. > I've personnally worked on code that does something slick for popup windows. When a popup window is displayed, you are in "query" mode. You enter some criteria and hit ESC (or just hit ESC). The popup window is then populated with what matches your query criteria. Thus, if you know your vendor begins with the letter 'A', you would enter "A*" and only the vendors beginning with 'A' would be in your popup window. DAS -- David A. Snyder @ Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA Current Release is db4glgen-3.4 UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: Dave.Snyder@snide.com