Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

[Jim Hurley]

I put my script into a separate button. I think yours was in the Option button.

Put this script into your Option button:


on menuPick pItemName
   put field 1 into tAngle --Or wherever your angle is located
   put tAngle*pi/180 into tAngle
   put pItemName into tTrigFunct
   switch tTrigFunct
      case "sine"
              put sin(tAngle) into tValue
         put "The sine of " & tAngle*180/pi & " degrees  is " & tValue into tResult
         break
      case "cosine" 
            put cos(tAngle) into tValue
         put "The cosine of " & tAngle*180/pi & " is " &  tValue into tResult
         break
      case "tangent"
         put tan(tAngle) into tValue
         put "The Tangent of " & tAngle*180/pi & " is " &  tValue into tResult
   end switch
put tResult into field 2
end menuPick


You should get a field 2 that locks like this, if the angle is 45 degrees::

The sine of 45 degrees  is 0.707107

Is that the results you wanted?

Jim



> Hi Jim,
> 
> I was trying to directly use the label of an option menu button (with sin, cos and tan as menu items) and combining that with the angle derived in another script. Something like:
> 
>  					put (the label of btn myOptionMenu)&"("&tangle&")" 
> 
> This result in something like:
> 
> 								Sin(tangle)
> 
> 
> And I had trouble figuring out how to evaluate this.
> 
> BTW, Your script doesn't work for me. Does it work for you?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Roger