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Thanks for the tip. I will also post here using Plain Text from now on.

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"Ben Combee" <combee@techwood.org> wrote in message
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> John
>
> 1) Please post here using plain text -- its hard to quote messages
> written in HTML.
>
> 2) I think your problem is the original label to which you set the popup
> trigger.  You need to make sure the label you give it in Constructor is
> at least as large as what you're copying in, or you will overwrite data
> beyond the control.
>
> 3) Perhaps you should use CtlSetLabel, which just changes the embedded
> pointer.  Then, you could have it point into the same string resource
> and avoid the copy which may be corrupting your form.
>
> "John Shehata" <jshehata@ground-0-zero.comNOJUNK> wrote in message
> news:XfTJFrjFBHA.2432@server2.massena.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have been having one heck of a time working with my popup triggers. I
> have a problem and i have narrowed it down to my StrCopy function to get
> the label. What it does is it seems to make my trigger inoperable. Once
> it is set, if you click on the trigger on my form, it doesn't popup.
> Nothing happens really, it just blinks.
>
> My trigger works fine if i do not try to set a value for it when the
> form is being initialized. The code that is causing a problem is as
> follows...
>
> // loading the data into my list
> stringH = DmGetResource('tAIS', DueDtAppInfoStr);
> duedt = (char *) MemHandleLock(stringH);
>
> acnoholds = SysFormPointerArrayToString(duedt, 4);
>
> listP = /*(ListPtr)*/ GetObjectPtr(frmPrefsDueDtListList);
> LstSetListChoices(listP, (char **)MemHandelLock(acnoholds), 4);
> ctlP = GetObjectPtr(frmPrefsDueDtTriggerPopTrigger);
>
> //setting the item i want based on a preffernece that is contained
> //within index (currently set to 1)
> LstSetSelection(listP, index);
>
> LabelP = (char *) CtlGetLabel(ctlP);
>
> //here is the line that i know is causing the problem. I know this
> because if i do
> //not copy the string this works fine, i just don't have this item
> displayed.
> StrCopy(labelP, LstGetSelectionText(listP, LstGetSelection(listP)));
> CtlSetLabel(ctlp, labelP);
>
>
> I know that all of this code compiles and runs so if i made an error
> typing it in here just ignore it.
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
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> -John
> AOL IM: tut00
> ground-0-zero software engineering
> http://www.ground-0-zero.com
>
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