Unusual Problem

[Mark Smith]

Charles, can you post the handler that gets the values from the first  
three option menus and does the calculation?
I tried setting three menus up as you describe, with a preOpenCard  
handler to initialise them to the system date, and it worked just  
fine, so I'm wondering if there might be something in the way you're  
reading the values from them.

Best,

Mark

On 31 Dec 2006, at 00:17, Charles Szasz wrote:

> I am still having an unusual problem with setting the value of  
> three menu option buttons. In the preOpenStack, I have a script  
> which sets the value of three menu option buttons, optionMenu  
> (system date for the year), optionMenu2 (system date for the month)  
> and optionMenu3 (system date for the day) when the first screen is  
> presented to the user.
>
> I have three other option menu buttons, optionMenu4 (the numerical  
> year that the user chooses), optionMenu5 (the numerical month the  
> user chooses) and optionMenu6 (the numerical day the user chooses).  
> These are subtracted from the first three optionMenu buttons.  
> However, when the user selects a date using the optionMenu4,  
> optionMenu5 and optionMenu6 and does not select the system date,  
> that is use the current date, the age for the year and day result  
> in negative numbers for year, which is the year entered and the  
> month entered, respectively.
>
> I don't understand why the optionMenu, optionMenu2 and optionMenu3  
> are not "initialized" despite showing the system date as numerical  
> year, month and day. By the way I have another script that is  
> triggered to compute the age when the user chooses the day of the  
> birth  date that is handled by sending a mouseUp message to another  
> button that takes the numbers from the option menus and does the  
> calculation.
>
> Here is the preOpenStack script:
>
> local tdate
>   put the short date into tDate
>   convert tDate from short date to dateItems
>   select line lineOffset(item 1 of tDate, btn "optionmenu") of btn  
> "optionmenu"
>   set the menuhistory of btn "optionmenu2" to item 2 of tDate
>   set the menuhistory of btn "optionmenu3"to item 3 of tDate
>
> The only times that the age is computed correctly is if the user  
> selects a diffferent date using the first three option menu buttons.
>
> Any help that I can get would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>
> Charles Szasz
> cszasz at mac.com
>
>
>
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