making a popup insert text.

[Dan Shafer]

OK, so that's pretty straight-forward.

Once the user makes a choice from either an option menu or a combo  
box, you can get the choice:

In both cases, the current user choice is sored as the label of the  
object:

put the label of button "choicemaker1" into scriptLineToAdd


On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Bob Hartley wrote:

> You wrote:
>
> Hi Dan
>
>
>> Not sure exactly what you mean by that question, but if you use a  
>> combo
>> box (I assume that's what you meant and not an option box, which  
>> doesn't
>> exist), you don't have to do any programming to get the user's  
>> selection
>> to show up in the box portion of the object. That's built-in  
>> behavior.
>>
>
> It was an option menu, but a combo box will do.
>
> What I want is a preference stack with a box or menu that has  
> things on it
> like
> 2 fields
> 3 fields
> 4 fields
>
> Depending on the choice, it adds the script into a button. eg a  
> ficticious
> one.
> on mouseup
> copy 3 fields to stack xyz
> end mouseup
>
>
> IE it is a way of allowing the enduser to modify the function of a  
> button
> from a list of choices.
>
> Cheers
> Bob
>
>
>>
>> Just set the alternative choices in the Property Inspector for the  
>> combo
>> box and, voila!, done.
>>
>>
>>
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