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   Dean Earley to Laphan   
   Re: Anybody done a 2 checkboxes per row    
   20 Feb 09 13:50:37   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.lang.vb, comp.lang.basic.visual.misc   
   From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk   
      
   Laphan wrote:   
   > 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!!   
   >   
   > Thanks   
      
   I think you will need to implement this yourself by creating the   
   checkboxes and labels as needed, possibly in a scrollable container.   
      
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   Dean Earley (dean.earley@icode.co.uk)   
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