Thanks I seem to have fallen foul of the description of menus in the LC docs. What I want is a single 'mouseDown' handler in my mainstack that checks if the right mouse button had been pressed in an editable field and then provides Edit-menu type services to that field (the target). Could I use a button menu for that? I couldn't understand from the docs if I could or not (I could not work out if each field would need its own button), so I started exploring stack menus, which I've never used in quite a long LC coding career. Very happy to be advised, as ever.
Graham Sent from my iPad On 9 May 2013, at 19:02, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 5/9/13 3:32 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > >> >> PS - the LC docs tell one to set the individual buttons' autoArm and >> armBorder properties to true. I had to do this with the LC Message >> Box because I couldn't find these properties in any other way. I >> naively thought that in LC 6.0.1 you can reveal (and therefore set) >> all properties of an object. Was I wrong? > > Use a popup menu button instead, it's all automatic then. The only reason to > use a stack menu is if you want some kind of custom display, like using > images instead of text lists, for instance. Stack menus are fiddly and rarely > needed. > > LC separates out the properties it thinks belong to a button of a certain > "type" (even though all buttons can be any style.) So if you aren't looking > at a particular style it thinks should have those properties, they aren't > displayed. You'll see those two if you are editing a push button. > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
