XPost: alt.comp.lang.vb, comp.lang.basic.visual.misc   
   From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk   
      
   Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:   
   > "Laphan"  fired this volley in   
   > news:b4WdnZ5HTtNK5ADUnZ2dnUVZ8sPinZ2d@posted.plusnet:   
   >   
   >> Hi All   
   >>   
   >> I'm open to design suggestions on this!   
   >>   
   >> Basically I have a dropdown list of say attirbutes and I want to   
   >> give the user the ability to tick the ones that they want and the   
   >> ones they want to omit so that when I query a database from their   
   >> suggestion we can refine down to a real specific. I'm envisaging   
   >> that the dropdown list would look like as follows:   
   >>   
   >> [x] [ ] Football   
   >> [ ] [ ] Cricket   
   >> [ ] [x ] Snooker   
   >> [ ] [ ] Boxing   
   >> [x] [ ] Baseball   
   >> [ ] [ ] Rugby   
   >>   
   >> Basically the first col of checkboxes is to say show all the people   
   >> who ARE interested in Football, Baseball, etc, but using the second   
   >> col of checkboxes they can OMIT the people that are interested in   
   >> Snooker.  Does this make sense?   
   >>   
   >> I would auto-fill this drop-down with the attributes, but I don't   
   >> know how to get 2 checkboxes in the dropdown list. Any ideas or a   
   >> better way of doing this?   
   >>   
   >> Ideally I want it to work from a dropdown menu so that the user   
   >> clicks the dropdown and then the dropdown list appears below it. A   
   >> cheat that I've used several times, but not with 2 checkboxes!!   
   >   
   > How about only one list?  The user checks the ones he wants.  It's   
   > _implied_ that he doesn't want the un-checked ones.   
      
   And if they want neither (or both)?   
      
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