Category Selection

General
1

Hi there, I was wondering whether anyone could point me in the right direction in achieving the following.
I would like users to be able to select a category from a dropdown. The dropdown needs to be sectioned to make finding the right category easy, for example:

Parent Category

  • Cat 1
  • Cat 2
  • etc
    Parent Category 2
  • Cat etc

They should not be able to choose Parent Category. So basically looking for the html equivalent of optgroup for select.

Thanks
Adam

2

I have done a lot of searching and cant find anything. So are there any other patterns that people use to achieve the same that doesn’t make it onerous on the end user?

3

Submenu? The parent categories would be the menu, the cat1 etc the submenues.

Have a look at contextualmenu in the docs

4

http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/RectControl.ConstructContextualMenu

5

ConstructContextualMenu certainly is what I am looking for… But not as a contextual menu. Anyway to make this appear on clicking of the control (not right click)

6

Maybe the following gives you some idea on how to achieve what you want

http://drdakin.tripod.com/REALbasic/ListboxSubMenu/listbox-submenu.zip

7

[quote=178667:@Markus Winter]Maybe the following gives you some idea on how to achieve what you want

http://drdakin.tripod.com/REALbasic/ListboxSubMenu/listbox-submenu.zip[/quote]
Thanks. I think this will help me achieve what I am looking for :slight_smile: