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Drop Down List

Here is a utility to give you a Drop Down List in PCDMIS.

Go here to find it.



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Suggested locations: C:\PCDUTIL\

Usage:
STARTUP    =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:, LIST= YES
            ALIGNMENT/END
            LOADPROBE/TP20-3X50
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,***************************
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,Preload the "NO ANSWER" to check for no response from operator
            ASSIGN/DROPLIST = "NO ANSWER"
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,***************************
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,Command line to get the drop down. PCDMIS has a 256 character limit per line.
            EXTERNALCOMMAND/NO_DISPLAY, WAIT ; C:\PCDUTIL\DROPLIST.EXE Choose Operator|Ted Bundy|Henry Lee Lucas|John Wayne Gacy|Jeffrey Dahmer
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,***************************
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,Test for "NO ANSWER" and branch to end of program(handle as you want)
            IF_GOTO/DROPLIST == "NO ANSWER",GOTO = END_OF_PRGM
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,***************************
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,***************************
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,Just a comment to test the results
            COMMENT/OPER,YES,DROPLIST
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,***************************
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,Part Program here.....
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,
            COMMENT/DOC,NO,***************************
            COMMENT/DOC,NO, Here is the Label that the above test goes to.
END_OF_PRGM=LABEL/



EXTERNALCOMMAND/NO_DISPLAY, WAIT ; C:\PCDUTIL\DROPLIST.EXE Choose Operator | Ted Bundy | Henry Lee Lucas | John Wayne Gacy | Jeffrey Dahmer
The parameters for the utility are:

Drop Down List Title Required
Field delimiter(Pipe) Required
List items At least one required

List items are show in the order that they are entered. A sort does not occur.

The variable in PCDMIS must be DROPLIST.