Main menu puzzle

[Kay C Lan]

On 2/18/06, Ken Apthorpe <ken.apthorpe at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Hi anyone
>
> SHORT VERSION (immediate problem)
>
> Created my first menu, using menu builder and autoscript. Ungrouped to
> look
> at scripts.  File menu has Exit, divider and Quit (for Mac shift). Script
> is:
>
> --The following menuPick handler was generated by the Menu Builder.
> on menuPick pWhich
>   switch pWhich
>   case "Exit"
>     --Insert script for Exit menu item here
>     break
>   case "Quit"
>     --Insert script for Quit menu item here
>     break
>   end switch
> end menuPick
>
> After exploration to discover an Exit/Quit script, my script is:
> on menuPick pWhich
>   switch pWhich
>   case "Exit"
>   on "Exit" answer "Are you sure you want to exit?" with "Yes" or "OK"
>      if it is "OK" then quit
> end "Exit"
> break
>   case "Quit"
>   on "Quit" answer "Are you sure you want to quit?" with "Cancel Quit" or
> "OK"
>       if it is "OK" then quit
> end "Quit"
> break
>   end switch
> end menuPick
>
> Error window says error, hint "on".



on "Exit" answer "Are you sure you want to exit?" with "Yes" or "OK"

should be just:
 answer "Are you sure you want to exit?" with "Yes" or "OK"

the line - case "Exit" is basically saying on Exit.

>From here I guess you can figure out what is wrong with the on "Quit"
line:-)

pWhich is a paramater passed when you make a selection - it could easily be
pTheMenuSelectionImade, in the documents I think they use theMenuItem (I
typed 'on menuPick' into Preview's search field and found the info in half
an eye blink - I love these new docs) so it really doesn't matter what you
call it so long as you pass the same name into the 'switch' control
structure.

HTH