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

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Developing on Windows, I wasn't aware that the behavior on Mac is just like
I wanted it to be. I was just thinking much to complicated.
With some more tweaks with the formattedWidth getting from the longest line
of the text and handling the icons of the button I followed your nice script
Phil.
Thanks Jacqueline and Phil
Tiemo


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

Hi Tiemo,

On a Mac, the option button list is shown at the full width of the text it
contains.

I haven't tried it on other platforms. If it doesn't work that way on your
platform, you could do something like this (in the button script):


local sOriginalRect


on menuPick pItemName
     restoreMe
     answer pItemName
end menuPick


on mouseDown
     if sOriginalRect is empty then put the rect of me into sOriginalRect
     put sOriginalRect into tRect
     put (item 1 of tRect + the formattedWidth of me) into item 3 of tRect
     set the rect of me to tRect
end mouseDown


on mouseLeave
     restoreMe
end mouseLeave


command restoreMe
     lock screen
     set the rect of me to sOriginalRect
     unlock screen
end restoreMe


Hope this helps -
Phil Davis



On 10/9/15 5:48 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> 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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