Android Question What is the best way to create a drop-down list box?

[Topwiz]

In HTML there is the SELECT tag which allows you to specify a value and description. The user sees the description and your code sees the value:

<select id="myoption">
<option value="N">No</option>
<option value="Y">Yes</option>
</select>

In my first B4A app I used a Spinner control which looks nice but I had to create an array to hold the data values that go with the descriptions shown in the control.

Is there an easier way to do this? If not, I think this would be a great improvement if the Spinner control could keep track of the data value as well as the description.

 

[metrick]

try http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/popup-menu-list-library.11136/ may work for you.

 

[canalrun]

Here is code I uploaded about a year ago for a DropList. It's implemented entirely in B4A as a class. I included the source code and an example. It's far from perfect, but might be useful.

http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/droplist.21671/#post-125558

Barry.

 

[DonManfred]

You can easy use a spinner for this. See Erels example for a Spinner ("Visible" Names) with a map ("Values")

for your example it would be:
Visible names = Yes, No
Values = Y, N

 

[Topwiz]

I used a Map to store the keys/values and it works great. Thanks!