Pickers, Pop-up Views, and Overviews

Specifying the List of Items for a Popup

The

clMonthView

view class displays a monthly calendar. Figure 6-47 shows

an example.

Example of a month view

Specifying the List of Items for a Popup

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You specify the item list for

protoPicker

,

protoTextList

,

protoPopUpButton

,

proptoPopupInPlace

, and

PopUpMenu

in

an array. In the simplest case, this is an array of strings, but it can contain
different kinds of items:
simple string

A string. You can control the pickability of a text item or add
a mark to the display by specifying the text in a frame, as
described in Table 6-1 (page 6-38).

bitmap

A bitmap frame or a NewtonScript frame, as returned from
the

GetPictAsBits

compile-time function. You can

control the pickability of the item or add a mark to the
display by placing the bitmap in a frame, as described in
Table 6-1 (page 6-38).

icon with string

A frame that specifies both a string and an icon, as described
in Table 6-2 (page 6-38).

separator line

An instruction to display a line that runs the width of the
picker. To display a dashed gray line, specify the symbol

'pickSeparator

. For a solid black line, specify the

symbol

'pickSolidSeparator

.

two-dimensional grid

A frame describing the grid item, as described in Table 6-3
(page 6-39).

If all the items in the picker list cannot fit into the view, the user can scroll the list
to see more items.

Table 6-1 describes the frame used to specify simple string and bitmap items in the
picker list.

Current day

Selected day