Check Menu Items?

[Rick Harrison]

on 4/21/2002 3:42 AM, Dar Scott at dsc at swcp.com wrote:

> 
> On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 07:49 PM, Rick Harrison wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know of an easy way to put a checkmark
>> next to an item that has been selected in a menubar
>> to indicate that the item is the currently selected
>> item?
> 
> I haven't worked with a menu bar, but this is how I did it with
> button menus.
> 
> Put !c at the start of the line for the menu item in the text of
> the button.  There is no need to pad out the other menu items;
> formatting is automatic.
> 
> You might be interested in _ for a line separator, ( to dim, and !r
> for a dot.  The ( can be combined with !c and (I assume) !r.
> 
> Dar Scott
> 

Dar,

The !c checkmarks the menuitem, but I need to have this
done dynamically depending on which item the user selects.
The checkmark doesn't go on and off accordingly.  Have I
missed something?  Where in the documentation did you find
this little nugget?

Thanks,

Rick Harrison