Menu Buttons

[David Brooks]

I DO exactly those sorts of things. But, when I send a menupick message, nothing happens. 

I've tried things like:

send menupick (line 3 of btn "Examples") to btn "Examples"

and 

send menupick aspirin to btn "Examples"

However, I've never used the term "combo box" and it looks as if I have a new avenue to try.  Many thanks. This looks to be similar to what one would do with a field. 

MANY thanks.

Best,

Dave B.



On May 9, 2011, at 2:16 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:

> When you say you want to drive the menuItems displayed by script, does that mean you never want to use the mouse at all? I made a workaround recently where I did something like this, and I am giving you a snippet for your examination. Make two buttons, one an ordinary one, and one a combo box. Put several choices into the combo. Place the comboBox so that the loc of its selection arrow is, say, "200,200". In the regular button script write:
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> on mouseUp
>   click at "200,200"
>   wait 50
>   click at "175," && 225 + random(100)
> end mouseUp
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> This should open the combo box and select a random line within it. You can trap a "menuPick" message inside the combo box. Not sure what you are doing, but this might give you a hint as to a possible method. HTH.
> 
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> Craig Newman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Brooks <dbrooks at unlserve.unl.edu>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 2:14 pm
> Subject: Menu Buttons
> 
> 
> I am trying to create a series of "helps" where I step a user through a process 
> using the underlying tool. I have one "help" field that variously shows, hides, 
> fills, and moves around.
> 
> The scripts "say" things (aural feedback).
> 
> There is a "pointer" button that locates as needed, flashes, and shows/hides.
> 
> Here's my problem. Suppose I have a menu button that affords several choices. In 
> my application, I can click the button, move among the choices from a list that 
> is displayed -- with a choice automatically hiliting as I move around (hovering) 
> in the list, and then click to make the hilited choice. 
> 
> I want to drive that from a script. Is there an easy way? The list seems to 
> behave like some sort of modal stack that I must deal with. That is, if I create 
> a script that pops out the list, that list behaves as I would expect -- FROM 
> MOUSE ACTIONS -- but I haven't found scripting that leads to the same effects. I 
> suppose I could capture images and use these AS IF they were the real thing, but 
> then I'd have less flexibility than if I did this from scripts. 
> 
> Should I simply redesign things such that buttons display fields and try to go 
> from there? I seem to be able to get that approach to work from scripts, but it 
> seems cumbersome.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Dave B.
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