That approach should work fine -- I just tested it again on my system, and I use this kind of thing all the time to build menus on the fly. Maybe you could post your scripts so we could see what's going on?
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Pete wrote: > OK, now on to the next step. Menus working fine, all scripted. > > Now I want to add a menu item to the File menu in certain circumstances. I > coded a mouseDown handler in the button named "File" in my menu group to do > this. It gets the text of the menu, adds the text for the new menu item to > the end and puts it back into the menu's text property. New text never > appears. Set a breakpoint at the start of the handler so I can check my > logic, even inserted a breakpoint command. Never breaks. The menuPick is > right there in the same script and it works fine so why doesn't mouseDown > get handled? > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:06 PM, J. Landman Gay > <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > >> On 1/11/12 10:41 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: >> >>> Jacqi, >>> >>> Your explanation should appear on the "Menu Builder" Dialog from a >>> Help Button thereon. It would save a lot of newbies gobs of hair >>> follicles. >>> >> >> Thanks. I thought it was in the User Guide but I just looked and couldn't >> find much. Once you "get it", everything falls into place. But you're right >> there needs to be something more specific in the docs about the overall >> idea. >> >> There's a whole scripting conference stack just about menus too: >> <http://www.runrev.com/**developers/lessons-and-** >> tutorials/tutorials/online-**scripting-conferences/<http://www.runrev.com/developers/lessons-and-tutorials/tutorials/online-scripting-conferences/> >>> >> >> Jeanne DeVoto wrote it and she's an excellent documenter. I forgot to link >> to that in my other post. >> >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> >> > > > -- > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > _______________________________________________ > 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
