Designer: You cannot create choice list menus inside the Designer. You must create them in code.
Code: Choice list menus 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 that contains the items in the choice list. Each line of the text file would contain the text for one item in the choice list. By marking the beginning of each list of items with a keyword, you can have a single text file containing several choice list menus. Alternatively, you can build a choice list menu item by item in code.
After creating the ASCII text file with the choice list items, you call functions to create a memory file from the text.
After the memory file is created, you then define the choice list by specifying the location, size and border of the window that the choice list items will appear in. By default, the window right and left column margins are set to one, and the window attribute is set to LCLINACT. The window attribute is equivalent to the inactive attribute for the choice list. The active attribute, the attribute for the item that the user is currently on, is set by default to LCLACT.
