Option Menus

[buchacho]

I have an option menu that is populated with some values. How would I be able to clear all the lines of the option menu, when I am ready to repopulate the whole list of options?

Is there detailed documentation on how to use option menus?

[Dixie]

To clear the menu items in the option menu

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 put empty into button "theNameOfThebutton"

then put your new list of things into it...

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put "Able,Baker,Charlie,Delta" into theNewList
repeat with count = 1 to the number of items of theNewList
   put item count of theNewList & cr after button "theNameOfThebutton"
end repeat

[buchacho]

Thanks, I did try

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put empty into btn ...

However, it puts the button name into the first option line. Right now I have it as:

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put "-" into btn ....

Not ideal, but it works...

[Dixie]

Yes it will do that... my fault.

[dunbarx]

You could put "space" or an invisible character..

Craig Newman

[snm]

To clear the menu items in the option menu

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 put empty into button "theNameOfThebutton"

then put your new list of things into it...

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put "Able,Baker,Charlie,Delta" into theNewList
repeat with count = 1 to the number of items of theNewList
   put item count of theNewList & cr after button "theNameOfThebutton"
end repeat

Simpler way:

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put "Able,Baker,Charlie,Delta" into theNewList
replace "," with cr in theNewlist
put theNewList into button "theNameOfTheButton"

and no problem with empty menu option.

Marek