Cascade button - items with 'text' formatting

[jsburnett]

Hi,

I am looking for a reference to guide me in using text in cascade buttons.
I am trying to put dates into a cascade button and learned that the '/' causes the text to behavior differently.

I see a reference to adding check marks to the items in the cascade button using '!c"/

Is there anyway to display "2/14/2017"?

Are there other 'characters' like "!c" to that changes the format of your menu item?

Thank you for your patients for this 'begginer' question.

JB

[dunbarx]

There are two possible ways out of this:

1- Someone will know how to circumvent the tag structure of hierarchal menu buttons.

2- You can get a kluge from an old-timer, who likes kluges. Make a pulldown menu button named "p4". Make an ordinary button. In the script of the ordinary button:

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on mouseUp
   put space & numToChar(218) & space into ersatzSlash
   put "AA" & return & tab & "5" & ersatzSlash & "12" & ersatzSlash & 17 & return & "BB" & return & "CC" into btn "p4"
end mouseUp

The use of a "slash-like" character bypasses the tag constraints. So May 12, 2017 renders "correctly". You must then replace ersatzSlash with numToChar(47) when you extract and process that date doppleganger.

Craig Newman

[FourthWorld]

IIRC you can use "//" to render as "/" in a menu.

[jsburnett]

Awesome, Thanks!!

JB