ListBox

[nagad]

Hi,
As a newbie to AMS4 (I have just purchased it), can anyone explain in simple language, what I can do with the listbox object, and how I can do it. Thanks to any reply.

[Derek]

There is much information about the ListBox Object throughout the forum. Shouldn't take too long to find it [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Corey]

Well, in short, a list box can store or load lists of items which can then be made interactive. By extending your scripts you can therefore do pretty much anything you want with them.

For example you could easily pass information and commands to and from a list box with a Flash movie or other AutoPlay Media Studio components within your project.

You can incorporate Global Lists to create a small usable base of data for your project and freely add to and subtract from your list boxes and the attributes if it's items dynamically using this data. The sky's the limit.

Basically some common uses would be navigation, file selection, etc... If there's something specific you'd like to know just ask and I'm sure someone will assist.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[nagad]

Any Example?

Thanks Corey and Derek. Usually, I make a search through the forum when I need to know something. Is there any project for example that someone maybe post in the forum?

Thanks again

[TJ_Tigger]

I am currently adding one for my current project and in this project, the listbox is going to be used as a file selection menu. When a button is pressed the hidden list box is shown and when a doubleclick is made the file is opened and the list box is hidden again.

A question I have about using ListBoxes, how does everyone populate their listbox. I have seen people who build a txt file and then populate the list box from there. If the list is small it looks like you could type in each item during the listbox creation. I haven't done either of these. To remain flexible, I have the listbox populated when the page is shown from a file.search option. I had to play around with this one however, since I originally had the population action on the button itself, but that caused it to add the items everytime the button was pressed.

<font color=orange>Who has suggestions on a good way to dynamically populate a listbox with files from a folder on the CD that may change from project to project?</font color=orange>

[Derek]

[Boldly says:] I have whatever it is yu are looking for regarding this. Call me[!!!] ... and we'll work on it [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]