Hello, in Sesame on Windows, due to hardware acceleration which you cannot turn off as far as I know, the dropdown menus on "Combo Box" fields only stay open for a short time and quickly disappear if you don't mouse over the  dropdown menu or if you scroll down in the form.

I would like for the dropdown menus to stay open until I either A. click on an item or B. Click off anywhere else or on another field for example.

Seeing as I don't know how to do this, and don't even know if it's possible I thought of a work around.

I created a command button that uses the command @PopUpMenu and it seems to work fine. I also used PopupSelectPosition to make the menu popup near the field in question.

However, my problem is this:

https://imgur.com/a/s6pCG

https://imgur.com/a/wbw3D

As you can see, the menu hovers awkwardly right over the field in question. What I would like to do is make that field appear slightly below the field instead.

So what I came up with was using PopupSelectPosition then using the commands XPos and YPos. However, I quickly realized you can't use those commands inside of the PopupSelectPosition command because they don't have the "@" symbol. But the problem is that if you use @XPos or @YPos, it doesn't allow you to specify the exact amount of pixels you want it to be. XPos and YPos are supposed to do that.

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I'm sure there is a way to do this but I'm not figuring it out from my lack of expertise in coding. But here is the code I came up with:

var vChoice as String

var vX as Int
var vY as Int

vX = @XPos(Equipment)
vY = @YPos(Equipment)

PopupSelectPosition(4, vX, vY)

vChoice = @PopupMenu("Truck;Mitre Saw;Sawz-All;Level;Nailgun;??/","SELECT EQUIPMENT")

FormFieldValue("ACTION", "Equipment", 1, vChoice) 

Here is the example from the Sesame 2 Programming Guide for XPos:

Quote:

var vint as Int
vint = @XPos(Company)
WriteLn(vint)
XPos(Company, vint + 1)
vint = @XPos(Company)
WriteLn(vint) 

I appreciate any support, thank you for reading my post.

Thank you very much sir.