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[Glenn Boyce]

I want to select a card with a tab menu and set the tab menu to the first item - which happens to be called "General". I've played around and just can't get the syntax. Any assistance welcome

Glenn

[Janschenkel]

The easiest way is to set the 'menuHistory' property of the tabbed button. It expects a number.

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set the menuHistory of button "Tabbed button" to 1 -- selects the first tab

If you're not sure about the position, you can use the 'lineOffset' function to find out where it is.

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put lineOffset("General", the text of button "Tabbed button") into tLineNumber
set the menuHistory of button "Tabbed button" to tLineNumber

Note that setting the 'menuHistory' will also send the 'menuPick' message to your tabbed button. If you want to cicrumvent this side effect, you'll need to lock the messages before setting it.

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lock messages -- prevent 'menuPick' message
set the menuHistory of button "Tabbed button" to 1 -- selects the first tab
unlock messages

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

[Glenn Boyce]

Great thanks very much