menuPick pWhich go card...

[bogs]

This one has me stumped, really because I've used it about a hundred times before and (apparently) am having a complete duh moment now.

I loaded all the cards of a stack into a menu button, that worked fine -

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for the menuPick handler, I simply put

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on menuPick pWhich
   -- put menuItem pWhich
   go to card pWhich of stack "LcTips" 
end menuPick

However, when I click on the menu and select an item, the item shows correctly in debugger for pWhich, but the stack doesn't move to the card.

I have tried so far :
putting pWhich in ( )
putting 'quote & pWhich & quote' (Was thinking of something Klaus told me before)

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   if (quote & pWhich & quote) is among the lines of the cardNames of stack "LcTips" then
      go to card (quote & pWhich & quote) of stack "LcTips" // "revLcTips"
   end if // skips straight to end if

...and many other variations, such as putting pWhich into a variable with and without quotes, but have come up empty every time, no moving to the card, no cookie for me

If I copy the text from pWhich, though, and put it into this command in the message box -

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put the number of card "Contextual menus" of stack "LcTips"

I get the number of the card as shown here -

Hmmmmmmm.......

Any idea on what I am missing? I am sure it is something stupid and simple, but I just am not seeing it.

[Klaus]

Do your menu items really have QUOTES around them:
"Confused by a new term?"
"Contextual menus"
"Nudge controls"
etc...
?
If yes, remove them and try again.

[Klaus]

Just made a little test with LC 9.03.
Created a stack with 3 cards: eins, zwei, drei (german for one, two, three)
Created a pulldown menu button:

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on mouseenter
   put the cardnames of this stack into me
end mouseenter

on menuPick pWhich
   go card pWhich 
end menuPick

Works as exspected.

Then I commented out the mouseenter handler and added QUOTES to the menu items manually:
"ein"
"zwei"
"drei"
NOW the "mouseup" handler oesd nothing, but also did not throw an error!?
Very funky...

[bogs]

Like I said, simple and stupid. What a smultz I am


Thank you Klaus

When I put the menuItems in, I did it from the message box, and didn't even think of the quotes in the text of the button, just never made the connection.

Your right, there is no error, it just skips right over it in the debugger.

[dunbarx]

Bogs.

Where are these "tips"? And where is there a gadget to do what #23 says?

Craig

[bogs]

The tips stack came from vers. 2.x of Lc, then RunRev. I separated it out, and made it a plugin that should be independent of the IDE as much as possible. Right now, it is in this thread, but when it is finalized I'll be putting it on the share site.

I think you might need to read 23 again

[dunbarx]

Bogs.

Not getting anything, no matter how many times I read it. I cannot find the "reshape Polygon" tool, certainly not in the tools palette, and the optionKey does not act the way the tip says.

Craig

[bogs]

My bad Craig, although the tool is no longer in the IDE, I thought the key-combo still worked. I'll have to correct that in the tips <sigh>.

*IF* you still have a copy of rev 2.x, you can find the tool in the tools palette, see below ~

My, what a lovely (re)shape you have...

The handlers look pretty legible, so I don't think it would be terribly difficult to reproduce. Not sure why it was removed, it works pretty well.

[bogs]

Turns out I was wrong twice Craig I think I am setting a new record!

They MOVED it!

TWICE!!

[jacque]

Your right, there is no error, it just skips right over it in the debugger.

Probably because the quoted items are treated as plain strings where the first and last characters happen to be quotation marks. Those strings don't match anything in the menu script so nothing happens. It's not an error, just a mismatch.

[bogs]

I think your right, and it sure sounds better than anything I came up with