menuItem and menuHistory Question

[Ken Ray]

On 9/20/05 11:26 AM, "Klaus Major" <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> If I have the name of a Menu Item (In a Tabbled Button) "OptionA",
>> how can I get the Item Number associated with it. I want to set the
>> menuHistory property to the Item Index of Item "OptionA". I just
>> can't seem to work out how to do it!
> 
> ...
>   put lineoffset("OptionA", btn "my TAB button") into my_menuhistory

Just a quick comment on this - this only works if you don't have
similarly-named items in the menu (such as looking for "Save" in a menu that
has both "Save" and "Save as...").

So you either need to 'set the wholeMatches to true' before you do your
'lineOffset', or you an do this:

  put lineOffset(cr & "OptionA" & cr, cr & btn "my TAB button" & cr) into \
      my_menuhistory


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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