Option Menu Specifics

[J. Landman Gay]

Andrew Kluthe wrote:
> Sorry for not clarifying. I am not trying to work within a datagrid this
> time. I do not understand how to modify the behaviors of controls other than
> the datagrid. There isn't a button in the property inspector for modifying
> behaviors of an option menu.
> 
> I have read the lessons on behaviors and am still lacking a real
> understanding of where to find the code for handling the functionality of
> the option menu. 
> 
> here is the logic which I had in mind.
> 
> Load gLandownerContact into the text of "optionMenu"
> on optionMenu's MouseUp (down, whatev),
> Load a the full list from DB.

Use Mark Weider's suggestion, it will work fine. I just wanted to 
mention that for a single button instance like this, you don't need 
behaviors at all. Behaviors are great when you have a number of controls 
that need to share a single script, but if you only have one button it 
is more efficient to have it just use its own script.

One basic concept that may help: buttons are containers and they can 
hold text. If the button is a menu button (as option buttons are) then 
the text becomes the menu item list. You can populate a button menu 
simply by putting text into the button, like this:

put "one" &cr& "two" &cr& "three" into btn "myOptionButton"

This creates a 3-line list, which when put into the button, will pop 
down those three lines in its menu.

Everything else you want to do is just manipulation of the text before 
you put it into the button contents. If you want a particular line on 
top, parse your text so it is in the right order. But more typically, 
Mark's suggestion is the right one. Use the menuHistory property to set 
the line that will be under the cursor when the button menu displays.

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