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Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:50 pm**

I've got a menu popup with two choices. How do I answer the selected item of the list? Presumably something like this:

answer the ??????? of button "myButton"

No doubt it'll be embarrassingly simple but it's foiling my poor brain

Jim H

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:29 pm**

You were close,

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on menuPick myPick
  answer myPick
end menuPick

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:25 am**

Thanks for the reply but that's not working the way I need. I'd like to get the selected choice when another button is pressed.

so I need something like:

on mouseDown
answer the chosenItem of button myPopUp
end mouseDown

Sometimes the user won't have clicked the popup.

At the moment I'm doing it like this (below) but I can't help thinking there must be an easier way:

put the menuHistory of button amPM into tAmPm
if tAmPm =1 then
put " AM" into tPmAm
end if
if tAmPm =2 then
put " PM" into tPmAm
end if

Thanks in advance

Jim H

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:01 am**

Hi Jim,

What you do isn't bad at all. Just one little improvement:

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put the menuHistory of button amPM into tAmPm
if tAmPm = 1 then
put " AM" into tPmAm
else if tAmPm = 2 then
put " PM" into tPmAm
end if

You can also use a switch control structure and you could use the label of the button instead of the menuHistory.

Best regards,

Mark

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:00 am**

Hi Jim,

To get the visible side of the selected line:

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put the label of button "MyOptionMenu" into tLabel

To get the lineoffset of the selected line:

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put the menuHistory of button "MyOptionMenu" into tLineNumber

which you can then still use to get the label:

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put line tLineNumber of the text of button "MyOptionMenu" into tLabel

or slightly shorter:

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put line tLineNumber of button "MyOptionMenu" into tLabel

If you plan to develop multi-language software, 'the menuHistory' is your friend.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:45 pm**

Ah the label!

Thanks - it works perfectly now.

also

"else" - great - that'll neaten things up to.

Thanks again

Jim H

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