Robert Covington wrote:
> 
> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 03:40  PM, Alain Pastor wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Bernie Wylde wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>> It appears we can create list boxes in a number of different ways. 
>>> What appears to be the simplest and most straightforward method (to 
>>> me) is described on page 44 of the manual where it recommends 
>>> creating an 'ldes' resource with Resorcerer 2.4 or a template in any 
>>> resource editor. As I'm not about to fork out $256.00 for Resorcerer, 
>>> can anyone get me started on creating a template in say ResEdit?
>>> Alternatively, there's a demo file on the CD, 'simple list in Carbon' 
>>> which eliminates the need for a resource editor. The problem I have 
>>> with this method is that a click on the list box doesn't generate a 
>>> button click event. So, do we instead have to detect mouse clicks and 
>>> calculate the selected cell from mouse position?
>>> Hope I've made this clear. Any help appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Bernie,
>>
>> maybe that one can help:
> 
> 
> That's interesting.
> 
> I was going to suggest an embed, but that's beyond my technology.
> 
> How do you get the ID of the list element clicked? It give the 
> ListboxID  for ID each time , which is only natural I suppose, but gives 
> no element info.
> Do you then need to go to a Mouse based approach after the click?
> 
> Robert Bob
> 
> local fn DoDialog
> dim as long   evnt, id
> evnt = dialog( 0 )
> id   = dialog( evnt )
> 
> select evnt
> case _wndClose
> end
> case _btnClick
> // where from here?
> end select
> end fn
> 

You just have to retrieve the list handle and work with the List 
Manager calls. For example to get the selected text in the list, you 
could do the following:

clear local mode
local fn GetSelectedListItemText$( btnID as long )
dim as point    cell,dum
dim as handle @ listH
dim as long   @ actualSize
Dim As Short  @ dataLen
Dim As Str255   txt

def GetButtonData( btnID, _kControlListBoxPart, ¬
_kControlListBoxListHandleTag, sizeof(listH), listH, actualSize )
long if listH
dataLen = 255
dum = fn LGetSelect( _ZTrue, cell, listH )
LGetCell( @txt[1], dataLen, cell, listH )
txt[0] = dataLen
end if
end fn = txt

to get the selected line:

clear local mode
local fn GetSelectedLine( btnID as long )
dim as point    cell,dum
dim as handle @ listH
dim as long   @ actualSize

def GetButtonData( btnID, _kControlListBoxPart, ¬
_kControlListBoxListHandleTag, sizeof(listH), listH, actualSize )
long if listH
dum = fn LGetSelect( _ZTrue, cell, listH )
end if
end fn = cell.v% + 1

Alain