SmartClient, External dynamic combo values

(Kinetic 202x but smart client)

I need to populate a combobox using values that are dynamic and from an external application and looking for options.

I have tried setting EpiStaticDataList in custom code following the syntax where first line is Key~Description and subsequent lines are the actual entries (with key~values) but this does not work (not totally surprising since it’s ‘EpiStaticDataList’).

I also tried setting the WinForms combox.Items and combobox.DataSource to a list of strings and a list following the ‘~’ syntax above in custom code.

These do not work.

Would it make sense to get my list of values, then populate a UD table with the result, and then use a BAQCombo to pull the data from the UD table into the combobox ?

Any other ideas appreciated

thx, Scott