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Nested cyclic fields in two dimensional form

FormerMember
FormerMember

Hello everyone,

I wan wondering if it's possible to attach cyclic fields to one choice in another cyclic field? I mean like having a cyclic field with different choices, one of these choices has an arrow that leads to another cyclic field with different choices?

Thanks,

Sherif

  • Hi Sherif,

    you just make the callback of the first cyclic affect the available choices of the second cyclic. They cannot be 'nested' as such, but you can 'cascade' them so that one cyclic field choice affects the next cyclic field. If you are looking to do this for lib/cell/view then there is a built-in that can do this ddHiCreateLibraryComboField(), ddHiCreateCellComboField() and ddHiCreateViewComboField() (this may only be in the latest versions, IC617/ICADV12.2, not sure about when exactly this was added).

    I hope this helps you!

    Lawrence.
  • FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Thanks Lawrence!
    This will make me display another field on my form which can be for example disabled until I choose a particular choice in the first cyclic field to enable it. But I was looking for that "arrow" look, like in the menu of virtuoso, this must have been done with SKILL as well. How was that done?!

  • Hi Sherif,

    I would do this in the following way of creating a choice table

    choiceTable = makeTable('choiceTable)

    choiceTable["Alphabets"] = parseString("ABCDEF" "")
    choiceTable["Numbers"] = parseString("123456" "")
    choiceTable["Punctuation"] = parseString(",./;\":'" "")

    choice1 = hiCreateCyclicField(
        ?name 'choice1
        ?choices choiceTable~>?
        ?prompt "Choice 1"
        ?callback "cocForm->choice2->choices=choiceTable[cocForm->choice1->value]"
        )

    choice2 = hiCreateCyclicField(
        ?name 'choice2
        ?choices choiceTable["Numbers"]
        ?prompt "Choice 2"
        )
    cocForm = hiCreateAppForm(
       ?name 'cocForm
       ?fields list(choice1 choice2)
       ?formTitle "Choice O Choice"
      )
    hiDisplayForm(cocForm)

    Thanks

    RK

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi Ram, thanks for your input. This is actually not what I'm looking for. What I want is something like what hiCreateSliderMenuItem does. It creates a submenu that can be displayed when the field is in focus. I'm afraid such an option is not available for forms as well. Someone might correct me if I'm wrong!

  • One possibility (although not sure I like this) is to have a button which when pressed launches a popup menu (which is a menu, so can have slider entries). Selecting the value of that menu could then update something on the form (such as the text in the button).

    Andrew.

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Thanks Andrew. I already implemented another solution which is not really what I wanted but i'm not going to change it. Thanks everyone!

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