Getting the line number from "on menupick" already

[Jan Schenkel]

Actually, tab menus, option menus and combo boxes can't have hierarchical submenus - even if you can enter tabs in their text, which would result in hierarchical menus for any other menu mode.
Tab menu and option menu buttons are the only ones that have a reliable 'menuHistory' property, as they're meant to both select and display a user's _single_ choice from a list.
Combo boxes are special in that you should work with the 'label' property to fetch the user-entered data - the 'menuHistory' is whatever was picked last from the menu, but that's not a guarantee if the user typed something else in the 'field' part of the combo box.
For all other purposes, one should only rely on the 'menuPick' message parameter, which can be either the visible name of the menu item, or its tag, if you choose to use tags (which is very much recommended)

Jan Schenkel.
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--- On Fri, 11/13/09, DunbarX at aol.com <DunbarX at aol.com> wrote:

> From: DunbarX at aol.com <DunbarX at aol.com>
> Subject: Getting the line number from "on menupick" already
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 1:40 PM
> Not to go on and on and on...
> 
> Why are there no issues with any of the other menu style
> buttons? The 
> popUp, combo, pullDown and pullUp styles all have stable
> menuHistories when 
> deploying submenus. They look and work a bit differently,
> but the heirarchical 
> capabilities identical. the only real difference in the
> cascade styles is that 
> you cannot lock the menu open with a single click; you have
> to keep the 
> mouse down. This might be useful, but begs the point.
> 
> Craig Newman
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