List Box: _issel

List Box: _issel

Reports whether a specified list box item is currently selected

Syntax
Example

Syntax

CALL NOTIFY (list-box-name, '_issel', row-number, status);

Argument Type Description

row-number
N specifies the row number of the item

status
N returns a value indicating whether the item is currently selected:

>0 selected. (This value is the order in which the item was selected relative to the other items currently selected. For example, if the item was the second item selected, this value would be 2.)

0 not selected

Argument	Type	Description
row-number	N	specifies the row number of the item
status	N	returns a value indicating whether the item is currently selected:
		>0	selected. (This value is the order in which the item was selected relative to the other items currently selected. For example, if the item was the second item selected, this value would be 2.)
		0	not selected

Example

_issel reports whether item 3 in LISTBOX1 is currently selected:

   call notify('listbox1','_issel_',3,issel);
   if issel>0 then
      _msg_="The third item is currently
             selected.";
   else
      _msg_="The third item is NOT currently 
             selected.";

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