Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

[Jim Hurley]

Hi Roger

I'm sure I missed the point of this thread. I'll go through it more carefully.

But could you tell me how this "mouseUP" handle fails to do the job?

Thanks,

Jim


on mouseUp
   put field 1 into tAngle
   put tAngle*pi/180 into tAngle
   --put the label of btn "myOptiionMenu" into sOption
   put the label of button "myOptionMenu" into tTrigFunct
   switch tTrigFunct
      case "sine"
         put sin(tAngle) into tValue
         put "The sine of " & tAngle*180/pi & " degrees  is " & tValue into tResult
         break
      case "cosine" 
            put cos(tAngle) into tValue
         put "The cosine of " & tAngle*180/pi & " is " &  tValue into tResult
         break
      case "tangent"
         put tan(tAngle) into tValue
         put "The Tangent of " & tAngle*180/pi & " is " &  tValue into tResult
   end switch
put tResult into field 2
end mouseUp



> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:10:28 -0800
> From: Roger Guay <irog at mac.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button
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> I know this is probably a stupid question, but I can't seem to make it work:
> 
> I have an Option Menu button with sin, cos, tan as menu Items. I want my card script to take the label of that button, and then perform the trig function with that label. I've tried every thing I can think of to "get", "do" or in general  assemble the script, but to no avail. Any suggestion?
> 
> TIA,
> Roger
> 
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