Dropdown List
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Dropdown List
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Description
The Dropdown List object type defines a Text data element for your app.
When included in a visual layout, a drop down box appears allowing the user to select a single item within a group of choices.
Visual Experience
Below is an example of this object's visual experience.
Below is an example with 2 items unpacked. Unpacking is useful when you want to prominantly display the most common options. The remaining options appear in the drop down box.
Properties
Properties are accessible directly on the object panel.
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Display Title | No | Displayed object title |
| Display Items | Yes | List of contained items |
Settings
Settings are additional properties accessible by clicking the 'Settings' button.
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Grid - Name | No | Name of grid (objects with same name appear together) |
| Grid - Padding Columns Size | No | Pixel value of space between columns |
| Grid - Padding Rows Size | No | Pixel value of space between rows |
| Grid - Column Size | No | Size of column in pixels (empty will auto-size) |
| Grid - Row Size | No | Size of row in pixels (empty will auto-size) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Group - Name | No | Name of group within grid (objects with same name appear together) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sizing - Width | No | Pixel value of object width (empty for default) |
| Sizing - Height | No | Pixel value of object height (empty for default) |
| Sizing - Margin | No | Margin pixel values (L,T,R,B format) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Title - Show | No | Whether or not to show object title |
| Title - Underline | No | Whether or not to underline object title |
| Title - Margin | No | Margin pixel values (L,T,R,B format) |
| Title - Foreground | No | Foreground color (#RRGGBB format) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alignment - Vertical | No | Vertical alighnment position within container grid cell |
| Alignment - Horizontal | No | Horizontal alighnment position within container grid cell |
| Alignment - Items | No | Alignment orientation for contained items |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spanning - Column Span | No | # of columns to span in containing grid |
| Spanning - Row Span | No | # of rows to span in containing grid |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Coloring - Background | No | Color of background (#RRGGBB format) |
| Coloring - Foreground | No | Color of foreground (#RRGGBB format) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Border - Thickness | No | Pixel value of border thickness |
| Border - Color | No | Color of border (#RRGGBB format) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Migrate | No | Whether or not to migrate values between instances |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bundle - Unpack # | No | # of items to unpack from group selection box |
Scripting
This object supports an underlying data type accessible to scripts.
Data Type: Text
Remarks
None.
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