Determining which menu button was clicked on Mac

[Björnke von Gierke]

I had a similar problem like you, where I wanted to check/unckeck a 
menu item before the menu is shown. And indeed I was unable to do this 
anywhere else then the menubar group's script on OS X. I worked around 
this by using a "if the target = "view" then" script. It might be time 
for a feature request?

On Donnerstag, Jan 8, 2004, at 02:01 Europe/Zurich, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 04:53 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:
>>
>>> Though it probably wasn't clear in my original post I would like the 
>>> actual button "File, Edit, Help, etc." that is being clicked.  I 
>>> have one menu button in particular whose values are determined by 
>>> calls to an external.  I would prefer not to call the external 
>>> function every time the user clicks on the menu as a group, just 
>>> when they click on one menu item in particular.
>>
>> Rats, Trevor, I'm being dense.  It is still not clear to me.
>>
>> What are you doing in menuPick?
>
> Alright, here are all the gory details :-)
>
> My project has a stack with a player object that audio files are 
> loaded into for playback while viewing certain content in another 
> stack.  One of the program menus is named "Audio".  When the user 
> clicks on the "Audio" menu a script uses my QT external to check if 
> the player object is currently playing or stopped.  The first menu 
> item changes to 'Play' or 'Pause' accordingly.  The change of text 
> needs to happen in the mouseDown event, before the menu is displayed 
> to the user.  Currently I call the external every time the user clicks 
> on any application menu (by handling mouseDown in the group script).  
> I would prefer to only call it when the "Audio" menu is clicked on.
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com
>
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