Option Menu on iPad

[Mag]

I noticed that on an iPad, the Option Menu button displays a balloon with the available choices. It seems to work fine (I tested it only on iOS 7). Is this something you can reliable to? I mean, can you put it in a iPad app and it works? Is, so is there a way to hide it under another control which then you customize to the look and feel of app?

[JacobS]

Hi Mag,

From what I've experienced, the Option Menu and picker wheels are very reliable. I usually do not use LC's built-in Option Menu Button but instead use just a regular field with the following code:

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on focusIn
         iphonePick the cText of me,0,cancelDone,picker
         put the result into lineNum
         if lineNum is a number and lineNum > 0 then
               set the text of me to line lineNum of the cText of me
         end if
         focus on nothing
end focusIn

(Where the cText of the field is simply a custom property set somewhere else in code.)

This has worked very reliably for me and I have been able to customize the fields to the look and feel of the app, as you want to do.
Let me know if that helps.

-Jacob

[Mag]

Thank you so much Jacob, I will try this way, seems very smart!

PS
BTW, in the mean time I found a simple way to hide an Option Menu and let it to work normally: just put a regular button over it and then make it disabled.

[quailcreek]

You can also create a pickwheel like this. It can be in a button, field or whatever. This one collects all the names of the cards in the stack.

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on mouseUp
   if the environment is "mobile" then
      repeat with x = 1 to the number of cards
         put the short name of card x & cr after tCardList
      end repeat
      
      put tCardList into pickList
      iphonePick pickList ,1,"CancelDone"
      put the result into ItemPicked
      visual effect push left normal
      go cd ItemPicked
   end if
end mouseUp

[Mag]

Thank you quailcreek