AW: how to build hierachical menues?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Tiemo,

A problem is that a normal option menu button won't display the submenus as expected. In those cases, I often create an option menu button (or a custom-made variant of it) and a popup button. For example, create one button with the following script:

on mouseUp
     create btn
     put it into myBtn
     set the style of myBtn to "menu"
     set the menuMode of myBtn to "popup"
     set the height of myBtn to 22
     set the width of myBtn to 128
     set the text of myBtn to "item 1" & cr & tab & \
          "sub 1" & cr & tab & "sub 2" & cr & "item 2"
     hide myBtn
end mouseUp

and an option menu button without menu items but with this script:

on mouseDown
     popup btn 3 at the bottomleft of me
end mouseDown

Press the first button once and then press the option menu button. It will display a menu with submenus.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 24 okt 2012, at 12:03, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> as far as I know this feature, it is "just" an optical structure in one
> menu.
> Perhaps I didn't described it good enough. What I was looking for is a
> dynamical solution where I first see only the first level and after choosing
> one item of the first level, I get (a second window with) the sub menu items
> only of the choosen item of the first level.
> Or did I misunderstood your proposal?
> Thanks
> Tiemo