This happens when the complete text of an option menu is empty, not when a line of the text is empty.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015, 8:23 PM <dunb...@aol.com> wrote: > > I am misunderstanding. In an option menu, if I have, say, the second line > of the text of the button as empty, I get empty in the selected choice. > This has nothing to do with the name of the button itself, which does not > show itself, nor the state of the show name. > > > This is the behavior of an ordinary button, where if the label is not > empty, then that label is shown as the "name" of the button, taking the > place of the actual name. > > > What am I missing? > > > Craig > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 9:52 pm > Subject: menu buttons and showname > > > I've struggled with using the showName property of a menu button pretty > much > ever since I started using LC and beginning to wonder if I'm > missing > something. > > The showName property needs to be true for the the user's > selected choice > from, for example, an option menu to be displayed. First > problem - that's > the label not the name. But if the text of the menu happens to > be empty, > its name is displayed instead of empty which normally isn't something > you > want to happen. > > The dictionary says "If the > object > <https://inbox.google.com/u/1/glossary/o/329.xml> has a *label* > property > <https://inbox.google.com/u/1/glossary/p/391.xml>, the > label > <https://inbox.google.com/u/1/dictionary/property/2173.xml> is > displayed > instead of the name." but I have not found that to be the case. If a > menu > button has non-empty text and label and you set the text to empty, its > name > is displayed, not the label. > > A good number of my menus are populated in > a mouseDown handler with dynamic > content which may be empty. My workaround has > been to check for empty and > either set the button text to space, or set the > showName property to false > and be sure to set it to true in the menu's menuPick > handler. > > This isn't a huge deal but am I missing something obvious? Wouldn't > be the > first > time. > _______________________________________________ > 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
