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DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

Hi,

Can someone help me work out how to save the selected item from a bitcombo box?

I have this bitcombo with three options in, option 1, option 2 and option 3.
When the user presses save the program should save the item in an ini file. I have tried using the inifile write,something,something,@dlgtext(bitcombo1)
but it does not seem to save the option. I then need a way to set the bitcombo to the result that was saved before.

Is this possible?

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject:

Try @item(bitcombo1)... Smile

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject:

I don't use VDS 5, but if I'm not mistaken, the BitCombo is the same as
the COMBO. To access an individual item in a COMBO use the list function,
@item(BitComboName) which should return the selected item.

Using @dlgtext(BitComboName) will only return the text that is in the
edit field of the BitCombo, if it has that style.

Check the VDS 5 help file for the @item() function.

I hope this helps, at least a little. Smile

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:00 pm Post subject:

Darn

Posted too slow Sad

Skit3000 · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject:

But your explaination is better... Smile

DW · Contributor Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 175 Location: UK

Oh my god, I am so stupid....

Thank you so much guys.

vtol · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:57 am Post subject:

I seen other ways of getting items out of bitcombos - etc.. by way I API calls not long ago from a VDS world download, but I must have lost it somewhere, cant find it.
Thats probably over kill anyways.

Garrett · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

Yes, using the @sendmsg() you can do this, but much easier to just use the
@item() instead.