Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

[J. Landman Gay]

Try:

local sOption

on thisHandler
   put the label of btn "myOptiionMenu" into sOption
end test

on otherHandler theta
   do "put the" && sOption && "of" && theta
end otherHandler


On 12/7/12 4:02 PM, Roger Guay wrote:
> Thanks for your help, Paul. Your second script is more like what I need. BUT, I need to capture the bare function to be used with angles that are derived from some other script. Something like:
>
> local  theTrigFctn
>
> on thisHandler
>   put the label of btn "myOptiionMenu" into tOption
>   switch tOption
>       case "sin"
>          put sin into theTrigFctn  --- you can't do this
>          break
>       case "cos"
>          put cos into theTrigFctn  --- you can't do this
>          break
>       case "tan"
>          put tan into theTrigFctn  --- you can't do this
>          break
>    end switch
> end thisHandler
>
> on otherHandler theta
>      put theTrigFctn(theta)
> end otherHandler
>
> Thanks again,
> Roger
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Paul Hibbert <lc at pbh.on-rev.com> wrote:
>
>> command thisHandler
>>   put the label of btn "myOptiionMenu" into tOption
>>   switch tOption
>>       case "sin"
>>          put the sin of fld 1 into fld 2
>>          break
>>       case "cos"
>>          put the cos of fld 1 into fld 2
>>          break
>>       case "tan"
>>          put the tan of fld 1 into fld 2
>>          break
>>    end switch
>> end thisHandler
>
>
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