setting menuHistory by script not working

[Terry Judd]

On 30/11/2012, at 11:23 AM, <dunbarx at aol.com>
 <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> Terry.
> 
> 
> What do you mean when you say "set by script"? In a handler in a button?
> 
> on mouseUp
> 
>  set the menuHistory of btn "yourOptionButton" to random(3)
> 
> 
> end mouseUp

Yes - a variation on that (but called from a pulldown menu).
> 
> 
> This works fine.

Not for me unfortunately. For some reason the message doesn't seem to get sent unless I switch to another window (clicking in a palette for example).

Terry...
> 
> 
> Write back.
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Judd <terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au>
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> Sent: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 7:02 pm
> Subject: Re: setting menuHistory by script not working
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> 
> 
> On 30/11/2012, at 10:45 AM, Terry Judd wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to make 'preset' selections from a series of option menus by 
> setting their menuHistory in a script.
>> 
>> If I set the menuHistory from the message box it works just fine, but if do it 
> from a script it fails - at least until I switch to another window, at which 
> point the option menus suddenly update to their correct value (LC 5.5.3 OSX). 
> Same result with the IDE active and suspended.
>> 
>> Does anyone know what's up with this?
> 
> For now I'm using a hack that opens and closes an invisible window to force the 
> menus to update, but even that doesn't work all of the time.
> 
> Terry...
> 
>> 
>> Terry...
>> 
>> Dr Terry Judd
>> Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
>> Medical Eduction Unit
>> Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
>> The University of Melbourne
>> 
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Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne