equivalent of text changed for option menus

[jalz]

Hi,

I've been using on text changed to enable buttons when a fields been modified. This was working great until I started to use an Option Menu. Is there a similar command I can use when someone changes the value in one of the menus I use?

Many thanks
Jalz

[dunbarx]

Hi.

I assume you mean a "ComboBox" button (not an "Option" button) where the user can type into the selected menu item.
The textChanged message works there just as well as anywhere. Make two buttons. The first one is a standard button with this in its script:

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on mouseUp
   put space & random(99) after  msg
end mouseUp

The second is a "ComboBox", with this in its script:

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on textchanged
   put the target &&  target
  send "mouseUp" to btn 1
end textchanged

Now start typing into any menuItem in the combo. The silly and useless info appears in msg. Well, the info is useless, but the idea is sound. A "Combo" is a hybrid LC object (a dataGrid's little brother?) a button that contains an embedded field. But that field, though a bit removed from ordinary access, is just a field, and can indeed be manipulated like any other if you know just a little about it. Now you do...

Craig Newman