Choice lists are created using text in a memory file. Memory files are a facility of Vermont Views in which an ASCII text file is read into memory. First, you need to create an ASCII text file which contains the items in the choice list. Each line of the text file contains the text for one item in the choice list. By marking the beginning of each list of item text with a keyword, you can have a single text file containing the choice list for all fields. Alternatively, you can build the choice list string-by-string in code.
After creating the ASCII text file with the choice list items, you call functions to create a memory file from the text. Then you attach the choice list to the data or tickertape memo field.
