Showing four options in a menu?

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Tue Oct 16 11:51:28 EDT 2018



> On Oct 15, 2018, at 13:57 , Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> For displaying a simple binary choice in a menu, a !c checkmark works well.
> But in Navigator's property menu, there are four possibilities:
> 
> 1. the property is not boolean -- display nothing with the menu.
> 2. the property is boolean and is true for all the selected controls --
> display a !c check.
> 3. the property is boolean and is false for all the selected controls --
> display ???
> 4. the property is boolean and is false for some of the selected controls
> and true for others -- display ???
> 
> Is there any way to handle this without a sub-menu? It would be nice to be
> able to set booleans from the menu just by selecting them instead of having
> to mouse onto  a sub-menu.

It would be non-standard, but that being said, prepending the menu with a character like a bullet, checkbox, x or dash could work. Not sure if button/menu text can display HTML, but that would be a possibility. You would have to handle your selections differently methinks. 

Bob S





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