"Dictionary style" for abbreviation

[Peter2]

I have a package of information which is in "dictionary style: 'String A' is corresponding with 'String B'", e.g.

House	Haus
USA	United States of America
Lisp	Lots of insane ....
BMW	Bayrische Motorenwerke

Now I want to create "something" where the user can select the first string, clicks on it and the second string is copied to clipboard. At the moment I don't know what to use for "something"?

- a tree? Strongly structured, but no overview for the user
- a datagrid? Maybe the best way, but more complex to define
- a combo-box?

Any recommendations?

Thanks and bye

[Fred Tomke]

Hi, Peter, I would like to help - but I have problems to understand your goal.
Until now, I understood that the display value is something different to the usage value.
For the case you want to create a master-detailed list you can either create a tree, where the child nodes only appear when you open the parent node (for each level) or you create several comboboxes which are filling in depending of the selection of parent combobox.
Maybe you can give me some more hints.
Fred

[Peter2]

Good evening Fred

the question is related to the other topic with the grid. The basic behind of it are special Unicode-characters, they have a description and a Unicode, like

Code (autolisp) Select Expand

Arrows:
Arrow up, small       \u+1234
Arrow down, wide     \u+1235
Greek:
Greek Omega    \u+6666
Greek Phi          \u+6667
Latin:
....

This list exists as a text file, and I want to offer it to the users in a more intelligent way. The user searches want he needs ("Greek Omega") - clicks the entry - the code behind it ("\u+6666") is copied to the clipboard and the user can paste it without typing.

Now I'm thinking about the ways to reach it - there are some possibilities inside OpenDCL (see above), and I'm looking for some opinions.

[roy_043]

The Windows program charmap.exe may be inspiring in terms of GUI design.

[Peter2]

That would be fine, but it is far beyond my knowledge and the time that I can spend  ;)