Menu Buttons

[Pete]

That's strange because that's not what I'm seeing - no wonder there's
confusion!  Here's what I did to test.

Put an option menu on a card with the default choices.
Put a menuPick handler on the option menu:
 on menuPIck pitemname
    answer information pitemname
 end menuPick

Put a button on the same card with a mouseUp script:
 on mouseUp
   set the menuHistory of button "Option Menu" to 2
 end mouseUp

First time I clicked the button, the answer information dialog appeared with
"Choice 2" displayed.
Second and subsequent times I clicked the button, no answer dialog was
displayed.

I then changed the button script to set menu history to 1 and the answer
information fired with "Choice 1" displayed.

It appears from other posts that the original problem is solved by using set
the menuHistory so I guess this is somewhat academic but it would be good to
establish whether this bug really has been fixed and if so, why I don't see
the changed behavior, since I rely on that in some of my code.  Could it be
platform related?  I'm running on OSX 10.6.7.


Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>wrote:

> Pete-
>
> Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 8:40:34 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, well I just tried it and got no menuPick when I set the menuHistory
> to
> > its existing value (running 4.6.0.)
>
> Here's the issue: setting the menuHistory of menu buttons would work,
> but *only* if a new value was being set (not the same as the current
> value). So the fix was to trigger the menuPick message when the
> menuHistory command was issued irregardless of the current value of
> the menu button.
>
> That's working now. I just tried it again to make sure, with both
> pulldown and option menus.
>
> script of button 1:
> on mouseDown
>  set the menuPick of button 3 to 2
> end mouseDown
>
> script of button 2:
> on mouseDown
>  set the menuPick of button 4 to 2
> end mouseDown
>
> script of pulldown button 3:
> on menuPick pChosen
>  switch pChosen
>    default
>      set the label of me to pChosen
>      answer pChosen
>  end switch
> end menuPick
>
> script of option button 4:
> on menuPick pChosen
>  switch pChosen
>    default
>      set the label of me to pChosen
>      answer pChosen
>  end switch
> end menuPick
>
> Are you seeing something different?
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
>
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