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Posted: **Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:14 am**

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?

Posted: **Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:39 am**

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

Posted: **Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:34 pm**

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...

Posted: **Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:52 pm**

Yes it will do that... my fault.

Posted: **Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:02 pm**

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

Craig Newman

Posted: **Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:38 pm**

Dixie wrote: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

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