Developing on Windows, I wasn't aware that the behavior on Mac is just like I wanted it to be. I was just thinking much to complicated. With some more tweaks with the formattedWidth getting from the longest line of the text and handling the icons of the button I followed your nice script Phil. Thanks Jacqueline and Phil Tiemo
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Phil Davis Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Oktober 2015 22:59 An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Betreff: Re: How to access the text of an option btn before menuPick? Hi Tiemo, On a Mac, the option button list is shown at the full width of the text it contains. I haven't tried it on other platforms. If it doesn't work that way on your platform, you could do something like this (in the button script): local sOriginalRect on menuPick pItemName restoreMe answer pItemName end menuPick on mouseDown if sOriginalRect is empty then put the rect of me into sOriginalRect put sOriginalRect into tRect put (item 1 of tRect + the formattedWidth of me) into item 3 of tRect set the rect of me to tRect end mouseDown on mouseLeave restoreMe end mouseLeave command restoreMe lock screen set the rect of me to sOriginalRect unlock screen end restoreMe Hope this helps - Phil Davis On 10/9/15 5:48 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > I have an option button with long text lines as options, but the button > itself is smaller (width) as the text lines (because of layout > restrictions), so that you can't read the full text of the options. > > Now I would like to find any solution to show the user the full content of > the text lines before he clicks any choice. Either by hovering or right > click or anything else I would like to put the line into the tooltip or > anything else. By now I failed to grab the hilitedLine of the option menu. > > Any idea how to access the text by hovering or right click? > > Thanks > > Tiemo > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Phil Davis _______________________________________________ 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
