Tabbed buttons

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Jim Hurley <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
> I have an opening stack with 1 card. On this card is
> a  5 tab button. 
> Each tab opens a different stack.
> 
> When the stack opens, one of the tabs is selected
> (of course.) If I 
> want to select *this* tab the button does not
> receive a "menupick" 
> message and I cannot execute the item pick of that
> tab.
> 
> But it does respond to a "mouseUp" message. Is there
> some was of 
> determining which tab is selected so that I might
> use the "mouseUp" 
> message to execute the item associated with that
> tab?
> 
> Jim
> 

Hi Jim,

Open the Transcript Dictionary and have a look at the
entry for the 'menuHistory' property.
Allow me to point out that this construction might be
confusing for the end-user, as tabs are used to
delimit different panels within the same window.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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