🚀 go-pugleaf

I have read myself into a stupor now, and I still haven't been
able to find an elegant solution to this seemingly simple task:

In Turbo Vision, the TListBox allows you to tell it what to
display. This facilitates, for example, displaying only one
field from an object, but if that item is selected from the
listbox, then both fields (e.g. Code, Description) can be
edited in a modal dialog.

Now with TPW, the TListBox has its own string collection and
does not allow you to control what it displays! So it seems
the only way to accomplish the above scenario is to have a
collection of the Code/Description object *and* a listbox
filled only with the Description (which is what I want).

This causes some very interesting logistical situations which,
apart from the already apparent wasteage of memory, are rather
ridiculous. When the user clicks on a listbox entry, I have to
use the listbox index to find the corresponding element in the
collection of Code/Description objects and edit them. If the
Description is modified I have to delete the listbox entry and
insert the changed value.....

Please tell me I missed a complete section of the manual which
describes how to accomplish this!

Personally I feel there are many situations where only a
portion of an object need be listed, but without duplicating
that portion in the listbox!!

Cheers
Eddie                                              lotter@cc.und.ac.za
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