Edit Menu

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at Cox.Net
Sun Mar 25 20:35:43 EDT 2007


Hi Sarah,

Thanks a lot. Seems they could carry the Auto-script a little bit  
further, but to a certain extent I suppose they have (kind of)!

Joe Wilkins

On Mar 25, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> On 3/26/07, Joe Lewis Wilkins <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>> Do we have to implement each of the items in the Edit Menu? I thought
>> basic text editing was automatic with the enabling of the Edit  
>> Menu. No?
>
> When you make a menu using the Menu Builder, it includes an Edit menu
> with the default items (Cut, Copy, Paste etc). If you then use
> "Auto-script", you get the shell for the menuPick handler but it does
> not include the actual commands.
>
> I have a standard Edit menu script that I put into the script of any
> Edit menu. Here it is if you would like to use/modify it.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
>
> on menuPick pWhich
>  switch pWhich
>  case "Undo"
>    undo
>    break
>  case "Cut"
>    cut
>    break
>  case "Copy"
>    copy
>    break
>  case "Paste"
>    paste
>    break
>  case "Clear"
>    put empty into the selection
>    break
>  case "Select All"
>    put the focusedObject into tID
>    if tID contains "field" then
>      select text in tID
>    end if
>    break
>  case "Preferences..."
>  case "Preferences"
>    go to stack "Prefs"
>    break
>  end switch
> end menuPick
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