On Apr 22, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion Craig. I did tinker with this some more: > > So in my test field I have this script: > > on mousedown whichButton > if whichButton is not 3 then exit mousedown > put the mouseLoc into ML > get lineOffset(the text of me,btn "myPopUpButton") > if it is not 0 then > --For the X coordinate: move the menu over to the left a bit so it's > under the cursor > subtract 8 from item 1 of ML > > --For the Y coordinate: take the line number and multiply by apparent > line > --height of menu text and adjust so the menu pops up at the correct line > subtract (it*19)-10 from item 2 of ML > end if > popup btn "myPopUpButton" at ML > end mousedown > > > Then in my hidden test popup menu, I have numbers 1 through 35. This works > until I type in a number that causes the popup menu to hit the top of the > screen. Unlike an option menu, it does not truncate itself with a scroll > arrow - it just stops at the top of the screen with the first menu item at > the top. Interesting, it will truncate with a scroll arrow if it hits the > bottom of the screen. > > Any thoughts or suggestions?
The formattedrect function will give you the location (relative to the window) of a chunk of text. Don't know if that would help. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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
