Thanks Craig - I'm trying to create a cross-platform control so unfortunately I can't use a Mac only option menu. Additionally, I want to use a small text size in the menu - hence the need to fake a menu with a field rather than with a proper menu (the overall effect I'm looking for is like the option menus you see if you do a find (cmd-F in a Finder window on the Mac). Anyway, it turns out it's not so easy to simulate a menu that behaves properly when the mouse is both clicked and left open or continuously held down. I've got it mostly working now - I just have to come up with a method for closing the menu when the user clicks away from it.
Terry... On 16/02/11 1:55 AM, "dunb...@aol.com" <dunb...@aol.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > I am not exactly sure what you need, but I do something similar. I have a > locked field "class" where I want to place one of several text options. I > have an option button "class" that I reveal wherever I click the mouse down > in the field. That button appears at the mouseLoc and I can then select > something from it. The selected text is loaded into the proper line of the > field. The button disappears. In the field script: > > on mouseDown > set the loc of btn "class" to the clickLoc > put item 2 of the loc of btn "class" into tLoc > put trunc((tLoc - the top of me) / the textHeight of me) + 1 into tLine > set the clickedLine of me to tLine --remember the line of recent interest > end mouseDown > > on mouseUp > show btn "class" at the clickLoc > click at the loc of btn "class" > end mouseUp > > > And in the option button script: > > > on menuPick pItemName > put the clickedLine of fld "class" into tLine > put pItemname into line tLine of fld "class" > hide me > end menuPick > > > on mouseRelease > hide me > end mouseRelease > > > > Works fine. > > > Craig Newman > -- Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Education Unit Melbourne Medical School The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
