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I have a card with an option menu with 5 items. The option menu is part of a shared group which behaves like a background, so when I create a new card, my new card has the option menu. So far so good. But when I select an item in the option menu in card 1, card 2 shows the same item. The option menu choice is the same on all cards. That's not what I want. I believe this was different in HyperCard. If you had an option menu on a background, each card could have a different choice selected in the option menu.
Can't we do the same thing in LiveCode? Or am I forced to create a new option menu on the new card which isn't part of a background? From another thread I learnt I can also work with custom properties, but they seem to make my script too complicated for something which seems so basic...

Hi japino,

japino wrote:I believe this was different in HyperCard.

Yes.

japino wrote:Can't we do the same thing in LiveCode?

No.

Please get used to experience some basic differences HyperCard <-> Lovecode.

Best

Klaus

There's probably a good reason for this difference, but it's an annoying difference at the moment - but I will work around it. Thanks for the confirmation Klaus!

The other thread's custom property solution is the same one you'd use here. Store the line number that should show on the card. In a preOpenCard handler, set the option menu button to display that value.

The select command will do that: select line 1 of btn "myOptions". For a custom property, then it's:

select line (the myProp of this cd) of btn "myOptions"

Thank you Jacqueline!