Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
I'm late to this discussion but here's what I do. It's a modular solution, and I use it a lot. It's great for contextual menus for right-clicking in a field (customize the button contents depending on context) and I've often used it for just what you are doing, to offer a popup list on right-clicking a standard button. Once it's set up you will likely find yourself using it for lots of things, since calling it is as simple as: put popChoose(Vera,Chuck,Dave,-,Lovely Rita,Nowhere Man) into uChoice function popChoose -- create a popup button in your mainstack or a library stack --button style = menu, menumode = popup, name = contextualMenu --button script: -- on menupick what -- set the uSelection of me to what -- end menupick -- make the button invisible when you're done, if needed -- then paste this handler into a suitable stack script, so it's available anywhere --could be the same stack the button is in, but that's not necessary -- enter the short name of the stack containing the button --into the constant declaration below. -- popChoose() can accept a cr-delimited list of choices --or a comma-delimited list -- eg: put Vera cr Chuck cr Dave into choiceList -- put popChoose(choiceList) into userChoice -- or: put popChoose(choice1,choice2,choice3) into userChoice -- or: put popChoose(One,Two,Three) into userChoice constant popChooseStackName = yourLibraryStack put the params into tList put offset((,tList) into q delete char 1 to q of tList delete char -1 of tList replace comma space quote with comma quote in tList replace quote comma quote with cr in tList if char 1 of tList = quote then delete char 1 of tList if char -1 of tList = quote then delete char -1 of tList put empty into u set the uSelection of btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName to empty put tList into btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName popup btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName put the uSelection of btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName into u set the uSelection of btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName to empty put empty into btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName -- belt and suspenders, don't leave contents hanging around select empty if u = empty then exit to top -- ie, mouseRelease, no action end if return u end popChoose -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: create a popup button move it to -100,-100 create your standard visible button with the following script: on mousedown thebutton popup button x else beep end if end mousedown Does this do what you want? -= Mike On Jun 30, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at the button style, menumode and general appearance properties. I would think that you could dynamicly change the style and menu mode and general appearance. Just a thought…. Within limits, it does that so far. The code I have successfully changes the button type; my problem is getting the now-popup to pop. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
Thanks Peter. Very handy. -= Mike On Jul 2, 2014, at 8:16 AM, Peter Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm late to this discussion but here's what I do. It's a modular solution, and I use it a lot. It's great for contextual menus for right-clicking in a field (customize the button contents depending on context) and I've often used it for just what you are doing, to offer a popup list on right-clicking a standard button. Once it's set up you will likely find yourself using it for lots of things, since calling it is as simple as: put popChoose(Vera,Chuck,Dave,-,Lovely Rita,Nowhere Man) into uChoice function popChoose -- create a popup button in your mainstack or a library stack --button style = menu, menumode = popup, name = contextualMenu --button script: -- on menupick what -- set the uSelection of me to what -- end menupick -- make the button invisible when you're done, if needed -- then paste this handler into a suitable stack script, so it's available anywhere --could be the same stack the button is in, but that's not necessary -- enter the short name of the stack containing the button --into the constant declaration below. -- popChoose() can accept a cr-delimited list of choices --or a comma-delimited list -- eg: put Vera cr Chuck cr Dave into choiceList -- put popChoose(choiceList) into userChoice -- or: put popChoose(choice1,choice2,choice3) into userChoice -- or: put popChoose(One,Two,Three) into userChoice constant popChooseStackName = yourLibraryStack put the params into tList put offset((,tList) into q delete char 1 to q of tList delete char -1 of tList replace comma space quote with comma quote in tList replace quote comma quote with cr in tList if char 1 of tList = quote then delete char 1 of tList if char -1 of tList = quote then delete char -1 of tList put empty into u set the uSelection of btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName to empty put tList into btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName popup btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName put the uSelection of btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName into u set the uSelection of btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName to empty put empty into btn contextualMenu of stack popChooseStackName -- belt and suspenders, don't leave contents hanging around select empty if u = empty then exit to top -- ie, mouseRelease, no action end if return u end popChoose -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: create a popup button move it to -100,-100 create your standard visible button with the following script: on mousedown thebutton popup button x else beep end if end mousedown Does this do what you want? -= Mike On Jun 30, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at the button style, menumode and general appearance properties. I would think that you could dynamicly change the style and menu mode and general appearance. Just a thought…. Within limits, it does that so far. The code I have successfully changes the button type; my problem is getting the now-popup to pop. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
I'm trying to get a button to normally be a boring old popup, but allow other things to be chosen by it. The natural way would seem to to change it on mousenter if the specified modifier key is down, or if the second button is clicked. I get the change to happen trivially, but if I'm doing it from a mouseDown, I can't get it to display itself. I'm trying things like, on mouseDown bt if bt=3 then popup button the short name of the target end if pass mouseDown end mouseDown But I'm not finding a magic combnation -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
If your script is in a PopUp Menu button then it's probably just getting confused trying to pop up itself! Maybe try something like this in a PopUp Menu ensuring that the menuMouseButton prop is set to 1… local sModKey on mouseDown --ShiftKey check if the shiftKey is down then put Shift Key and into sModKey else put Just into sModKey end if end mouseDown on mouseUp pBtn if pBtn = 3 then answer sModKey the short name of me end mouseUp on menuPick pItemName answer sModKey pItemName end menuPick HTH Paul On 2014-06-30, at 8:48 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to get a button to normally be a boring old popup, but allow other things to be chosen by it. The natural way would seem to to change it on mousenter if the specified modifier key is down, or if the second button is clicked. I get the change to happen trivially, but if I'm doing it from a mouseDown, I can't get it to display itself. I'm trying things like, on mouseDown bt if bt=3 then popup button the short name of the target end if pass mouseDown end mouseDown But I'm not finding a magic combnation -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
On 6/30/2014, 10:48 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I'm trying to get a button to normally be a boring old popup, but allow other things to be chosen by it. I'm confused about what you want to do. But if my guess is right, you want to change the button's menu content on a mouseDown. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I'm confused about what you want to do. But if my guess is right, you want to change the button's menu content on a mouseDown. I want the button to normally be a plain old boring standard button. I want to make related functions available by right-click. So if the user just clicks the button, it does the normal script, but if it's a right-click, I want the list of choices to pop up (and the various course of code selected) to be chosen. I suppose I could do this with a group with a push-button and a hidden popup button, but the single button seems cleaner. (Although the group could mean I could have a behavior for the button, and still have a script for the group . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
Take a look at the button style, menumode and general appearance properties. I would think that you could dynamicly change the style and menu mode and general appearance. Just a thought…. -= Mike On Jun 30, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I'm confused about what you want to do. But if my guess is right, you want to change the button's menu content on a mouseDown. I want the button to normally be a plain old boring standard button. I want to make related functions available by right-click. So if the user just clicks the button, it does the normal script, but if it's a right-click, I want the list of choices to pop up (and the various course of code selected) to be chosen. I suppose I could do this with a group with a push-button and a hidden popup button, but the single button seems cleaner. (Although the group could mean I could have a behavior for the button, and still have a script for the group . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at the button style, menumode and general appearance properties. I would think that you could dynamicly change the style and menu mode and general appearance. Just a thought…. Within limits, it does that so far. The code I have successfully changes the button type; my problem is getting the now-popup to pop. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
From your example above, you're having the button try to pop itself up. Thats the only case where you probably don't want to manually popup button.. The key is to check the conditions, have other popup buttons with your context menus set up, and if the conditions are met, then popup button whatever to make the alternate appear. If no conditions are met, just pass mousedown instead and the menu of the current button will popup. The main problem with this method (at least as tested on my windows machine) is that if you popup a secondary button menu, the hilite of the main button can go funky, so you'd have to handle the hilited of the button in your code. To test, I set up two buttons, as someone else posted I was just checking for button 3 (rt click) and if it was right clicked, pop up the alternate menu, else just pass mousedown and the main buttons menu shows up. Another option would be to have a loop checking conditions.. (like checking what keys are down) and modify the menu list of the main popup button on the fly. This eats processor cycles of course, but works pretty well for the most part. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at the button style, menumode and general appearance properties. I would think that you could dynamicly change the style and menu mode and general appearance. Just a thought…. Within limits, it does that so far. The code I have successfully changes the button type; my problem is getting the now-popup to pop. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: popUp a button with itself on modified mouseDown?
create a popup button move it to -100,-100 create your standard visible button with the following script: on mousedown thebutton popup button x else beep end if end mousedown Does this do what you want? -= Mike On Jun 30, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at the button style, menumode and general appearance properties. I would think that you could dynamicly change the style and menu mode and general appearance. Just a thought…. Within limits, it does that so far. The code I have successfully changes the button type; my problem is getting the now-popup to pop. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
