Simulate a popup menu button

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Jul 18 13:58:25 EDT 2012


On 7/18/12 12:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 7/18/12 12:03 PM, Lars Brehmer wrote:
>> Thanks once again Craig!
>>
>> But again no.
>>
>> The popup button is already in place. It has 7 menu items, and 6 of
>> those have a submenu with several choices. I simply want to (in a
>> script) simulate clicking on it (done) then hiliting one of the items
>> and then show that items submenu and hiliting one of those items and
>> then execute picking that item (also done.) I just cant figure how to
>> show the menu choices and hiliting them.
>
> I'm not sure you can, since the menus respond only to physical clicks.
> But you could test:  click at the loc of button myFakeCursorButton
>
> I don't know if it will work.
>

Actually, that won't work because the click will go to the button. You 
might have to hide the button, send the click, and reshow the button. It 
will probably happen so fast the disappearance won't be noticeable, if 
the engine even draws the change at all.

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