On 5/9/00 8:22 am, Hugh Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> menuPick returns the text of the selected menu item. This is fine, but when
> items are the same (as in a list of names referring to record cards), it is
> not easy to identify _which_ record has been selected:
>
> John Adams
> Fred Garcia
> John Smith
> John Smith
> Alan Tilby
>
> on menuPick what
> put lineOffset(what,the text of me) into n
> go cd id (line n of the cdIDs of me)
> end menuPick
>
> How can we deal with this? Optionally return the lineNumber instead of the
> lineText of the selected menu item?
You can check the menuHistory property of the button - this contains the
number of the item picked.
Regards,
Kevin
> /H
>
> Hugh Senior
>
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