popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?

[Michael Doub]

create a popup button
move it to -100,-100

create your standard visible button with the following script:

on mousedown thebutton
      popup button "x"
   else 
      beep
   end if
end mousedown

Does this do what you want?

-= Mike



On Jun 30, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Take a look at the button style, menumode and general appearance
>> properties.  I would think that you could dynamicly change the style and
>> menu mode and general appearance.   Just a thought….
> 
> 
> Within limits, it does that so far.
> 
> The code I have successfully changes the button type; my problem is getting
> the now-popup to pop.
> 
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