Thanks everyone. You always come through.
You have taught me a new property: MenuHistory
I have found the following works for me. In place of the "MenuPick" handler I
used only a "mouseUP" handler.
(The TabMenu object handles all the highlighting chores.)
on mouseUp
put the menuhistory of
er route, mouseUp,
instead of menuPick. If it is the same, it generates the menuPick message by
hand.
Craig Newman
-Original Message-
From: J. Landman Gay
To: How to use LiveCode
Sent: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 1:47 pm
Subject: Re: Tab panels
On 3/25/11 12:11 PM, James Hurley wrote:
On 3/25/11 12:11 PM, James Hurley wrote:
In summary, is there any way to force the tab panel to receive a second
menupick message when it is already selected?
If the menuhistory doesn't change, the tab panel doesn't bother to
update itself. You might be able to hack it with something like thi
In the past, "roll your own" seems to be the outcome of discussions about tab
panels.
Bob
On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:11 AM, James Hurley wrote:
> I prefer the tab panel to the drop down menus. The choices are always visible.
>
> But I have a problem. If a particular tab is s
I prefer the tab panel to the drop down menus. The choices are always
visible.
But I have a problem. If a particular tab is selected, it will no
longer respond to a menuPick message.
Normally this is not a problem, but I am using the panel to select
lines or sentences from a long text doc
