Send a message when the mouse hilites text on an option menu, possible ?

[Jan Schenkel]

Hi Rolf,


There is no engine message that you can trap when you're using the standard option menu.
If you use a menu stack instead, then you can trap mouseEnter and mouseLeave messages as they are sent to the menu item buttons, and show extra information (either within the menu stacvk or by means of a separate palette or modeless stack).

The downside of this approach is that:
- you would have to script the menu stack to take into account variable choice lists

- your menu won't look like a standard menu unless you spend quite some time to make it look 'right'

HTH,


Jan Schenkel.

 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Rolf Kocherhans <rolf.kocherhans at id.uzh.ch>
To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 1:29 PM
Subject: Send a message when the mouse hilites text on an option menu, possible ?

I have an option menu with say 3 entries. When I click the onto the
option menu, I can see all 3.

When I hover up and down, the one which I am over is hilited.

Is it possible to do something with this hilite ?

I like to show some additional info about the hilited position.

In my case the 3 entries are filepathes and when I am over
the hilite I would like to display for example the first line of that file
in a field.


Cheers
Rolf

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