Menu Buttons

[Pete]

Yep, I do the same thing, it prevents needless database updating when the
value hasn't changed.  Just trying to figure out why you and I see the
behavior where setting the menuHistory to its existing values does not
trigger menuPick but it does for Mark.
Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Well what I do, as I said in a previous post, is I save the last successful
> choice in a property in the menu. Next time around I get the current
> selection and compare it to the last choice. If it's the same I exit
> menuPick. If it's not, then I process the handler, update the property, and
> pass menuPick.
>
> I do that because there is processing later on in the handler that I don't
> want to repeat. Other people's handlers it may not matter. If it does, this
> is the way to deal with it no matter which way the selection is made.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On May 11, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Pete wrote:
>
> > 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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