How to access the text of an option btn before menuPick?

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Tiemo.


OK, I read "show the user the full content of the text lines..."


as all lines, not just the one that is "current" within the opened combo.


Anyway, it appears that no messages at all are sent while the mouse is down and the comboBox is "open". No mouseMove, no mousStillDown. Nada.


So I am with Bob on this to an extent, in that another control is needed if you want to keep the combo as a desirable object on screen. Try this. Make a combo and a list field. In the card script:



on mouseMove
   if the mouseLoc is within the rect of btn 1 or the mouseLoc is within the rect of fld 1 then
      put btn 1 into fld 1
      show fld 1
   else hide fld 1
end mouseMove


Now this needs a bit of work, but maybe it is a start?


Craig


-----Original Message-----
From: Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de>
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Sent: Fri, Oct 9, 2015 9:53 am
Subject: AW: How to access the text of an option btn before menuPick?


Hi Craig,

I don't want to display the full text of the option button, but
only one
line of the text while hovering the text (or right click buttonDown on
a
single line), so that the user can see, what he would choose, if he
clicks
any line.
I think my problem is that "the hilitedline" works only with
fields and not
with the text of an option button, as far as I see it.
Thank
you
Tiemo


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Betreff: Re: How to access the text of an option
btn before menuPick?

Why not set the toolTip to the text of the button? I
don't know how large a
display that would be, or whether that format would be
tenable.


You could always use the "mouseWithin" message to display a field,
offset a
bit from the combo. and display the text of the button. At least you
can
control the properties of the field.


Craig Newman



-----Original
Message-----
From: Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de>
To: LiveCode User
Liste senden <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 9, 2015 8:50
am
Subject: How to access the text of an option btn before
menuPick?


Hello,

I have an option button with long text lines as
options, but the button
itself is smaller (width) as the text lines (because of
layout
restrictions), so that you can't read the full text of the
options.

Now I would like to find any solution to show the user the full
content of
the text lines before he clicks any choice. Either by hovering or
right
click or anything else I would like to put the line into the tooltip
or
anything else. By now I failed to grab the hilitedLine of the option
menu.

Any idea how to access the text by hovering or right
click?

Thanks

Tiemo

 

 







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