Yep, I do the same thing, it prevents needless database updating when the value hasn't changed. Just trying to figure out why you and I see the behavior where setting the menuHistory to its existing values does not trigger menuPick but it does for Mark. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > Well what I do, as I said in a previous post, is I save the last successful > choice in a property in the menu. Next time around I get the current > selection and compare it to the last choice. If it's the same I exit > menuPick. If it's not, then I process the handler, update the property, and > pass menuPick. > > I do that because there is processing later on in the handler that I don't > want to repeat. Other people's handlers it may not matter. If it does, this > is the way to deal with it no matter which way the selection is made. > > Bob > > > On May 11, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Pete wrote: > > > That's strange because that's not what I'm seeing - no wonder there's > > confusion! Here's what I did to test. > > > > Put an option menu on a card with the default choices. > > Put a menuPick handler on the option menu: > > on menuPIck pitemname > > answer information pitemname > > end menuPick > > > > Put a button on the same card with a mouseUp script: > > on mouseUp > > set the menuHistory of button "Option Menu" to 2 > > end mouseUp > > > > First time I clicked the button, the answer information dialog appeared > with > > "Choice 2" displayed. > > Second and subsequent times I clicked the button, no answer dialog was > > displayed. > > > > I then changed the button script to set menu history to 1 and the answer > > information fired with "Choice 1" displayed. > > > > It appears from other posts that the original problem is solved by using > set > > the menuHistory so I guess this is somewhat academic but it would be good > to > > establish whether this bug really has been fixed and if so, why I don't > see > > the changed behavior, since I rely on that in some of my code. Could it > be > > platform related? I'm running on OSX 10.6.7. > > > > > > Pete > > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net > >wrote: > > > >> Pete- > >> > >> Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 8:40:34 PM, you wrote: > >> > >>> Hmmm, well I just tried it and got no menuPick when I set the > menuHistory > >> to > >>> its existing value (running 4.6.0.) > >> > >> Here's the issue: setting the menuHistory of menu buttons would work, > >> but *only* if a new value was being set (not the same as the current > >> value). So the fix was to trigger the menuPick message when the > >> menuHistory command was issued irregardless of the current value of > >> the menu button. > >> > >> That's working now. I just tried it again to make sure, with both > >> pulldown and option menus. > >> > >> script of button 1: > >> on mouseDown > >> set the menuPick of button 3 to 2 > >> end mouseDown > >> > >> script of button 2: > >> on mouseDown > >> set the menuPick of button 4 to 2 > >> end mouseDown > >> > >> script of pulldown button 3: > >> on menuPick pChosen > >> switch pChosen > >> default > >> set the label of me to pChosen > >> answer pChosen > >> end switch > >> end menuPick > >> > >> script of option button 4: > >> on menuPick pChosen > >> switch pChosen > >> default > >> set the label of me to pChosen > >> answer pChosen > >> end switch > >> end menuPick > >> > >> Are you seeing something different? > >> > >> -- > >> -Mark Wieder > >> mwie...@ahsoftware.net > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
