I have an input box on my dashboard that lets the users choose what charts are displayed (a variable is set to the contents of the box and then graphs appear conditionaly based on that varaible), but so that they cant click on the input box and have the text editor appear (the background goes white and you get a cursor that lets you type / delete etc which is undesirable) we created a 'blanking plate', where there is a text box on top of it that has its transparency set to maximum and allow move / resize set to no, so that the only bit you can actually click is the drop down arrow.
The only trouble is, sometimes when trying to click the arrow, you accidentally resize the object behind the blanking plate. There is then no way to click on the dropdown arrow. I have allow move / resize set to no for the input box, but for some reason you can still resize the right hand side of it? There seems to be some issue where you can extend the edge of the input box out on its own, or the content of the text box on its own? Is there maybe a bug in the way resizing input boxes works?
Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do? It seems like it should be an option somewhere. Thanks for all your time and help!
Thats pretty much the right concept, we dont currently have a field that we could link the box to, but that can be solved with a simple load inline. The only real issue is that the dropdown is used as a sub heading, and it doesn't really look descreet enough using a multi or listbox.
I do wonder though, aesthetics aside, why it is still possible to stretch the input box after specifying no resize?
K.ravi, yes, thats excactly what we are currently doing, as you say. After some investigation I think the way the input box works is as though it were a chart with 3 columns, with one column for the variable, one for the text on the right, and then one for the size of the input box itself? Because you can still resize columns with resize turned off (this makes sense when you are arranging a chart, because you can manipulate the data but not move the chart) you can still resize the entire input box, as it is treated like manipulating columns within a chart. I guess there isn't really any way around this.
