Hello Panorama enthusiasts!
Pan 6 allow multiple columns of choices, in the choice selection dialog. See below for an example:
See below for a screenshot of the current situation, for the same database in Pan X.
Can Pan X arrange my choices into multiple columns, like in the first picture? If so, how?
Thanks in advance!
You spelled âjalapenoâ, âcantaloupeâ, and ârutabagaâ wrong, if ya care 
I donât think PanX has ever had multi-column popups. For a long list which is alphabetized, I often use a modkey like âoptionâ with an arrayreverse( to re-order the list, which allows faster selection for words like zucchini.
Thank you.
Thank you. I could do this, but then I would have to train people how to use it. The training could be done, but I hoping for a more elegant and straightforward solution, like the one from Pan 6.
IIRC it also could produce multi column menus for things like Fonts. Apple, pre-OSX, allowed for such, and early in OSX provided hooks for some legacy features to keep working. All such were discontinued as OSX evolved. So until Apple provides new tools supporting them you wonât find them in Panorama X⊠or any other Apple compliant program.
Well, thatâs not the answer I was hoping for. But, it allows me to move forward.
Thank you for your help.
Since your screenshot shows a form, you can just arrange radio buttons on the form any way you want. Of course then it will take up space all the time. You could put it in a separate form and use a tab panel to switch to it when you want to. Actually, I think this would be a good application for a Text List.
Could you please explain in more detail on how this might be accomplished with a long list (in the data sheet view)?
I donât use the datsheet view often, preferring a layoutâŠ
Then I use buttons to perform tasks like selection or assignment.
I have about 200 subcategories so I use a popuplist for quick navigation/choice.
local mmkey
mmkey=info(âModifiersâ)
fileglobal lSublist,lSubch
lSubch=""
arraybuild lSublist,¶,"",SubCategory
/*lSublist builds a list of, in my case, recipe subcategories, like Alcohol, Almond, Anchovy, Appetizer, soon to be reversed to Zucchini, Winter Squash, Wine, Whole Wheat
*/
arraysort lSublist,lSublist,¶
arraydeduplicate lSublist,lSublist,¶
IF mmkey contains âoptionâ
lSublist=arrayreverse(lSublist,¶)
ENDIF
/// then the arrayreversed lSublist pops up in reverse order, i.e. z,y,x,w,v rather than a,b,c,d,e.
