What's On The Menu?

Robert Sneidar slylabs13 at me.com
Mon Dec 31 14:59:01 EST 2012


I would probably have tried to hand craft one from scratch, gotten frustrated, and given up. :-) By the way, what would the menuhistory look like for a cascading menu? Since menuhistory is a single number, how would you indicate that the third item of the second item on the second level of the fifth item on the first was chosen? 

Bob


On Dec 31, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> You're right, LC is great for doing stuff like that, so I did.
> 
> Put a popup menu on top of an option menu.  Make the popup menu the same
> size as the option menu and set its layer so it's in front of the option
> menu.  Put all your menu items and scripts into the popup menu.
> 
> Looks like an option menu, allows cascading menu items. Still doesn't
> behave exactly like an option menu - menuHistory not observed, the menu
> items appear at the point where you click the mouse - but it gives me
> cascading menu items that look a lot better than the pulldown menu.
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> Nothing is stopping anyone from making their own object though, or trying
>> to make a native object behave differently.
>> 
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