Hey, that works! Nice solution! -- Best regards,
Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Become our partner in sales http://qery.us/1bq Start selling Color Converter today. 20% commission! On 23 dec 2011, at 01:37, Pete wrote: > I think I have found a way to do this without using multiple controls. > > I have a preOpenCard handler like this: > > on preOpenCard > set the text of button "myMenu" to "Select an option..." > set the textColor of myMenu to "#666666" --makes the text grey > end preOpenCard > > I put the following mouseDown handler into the option menu script. > > *on* mouseDown > > *set* the text of me to the textOptions of me > > *set* the textColor of me to black > > *end* mouseDown > > > The textOption custom property contains the real options for the menu. > I'll probably put the initial prompt text into a custom property too so > it's more general purpose - will also make it easier to check if the user > selected an option or not. > > > That seems to work just fine but there may be some corner cases I haven't > tested. _______________________________________________ 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
