Peter, I'm not exactly sure I'm answering your intended question but here's some thought...If you want to change your menu items dynamically and/or often then you can do this directly or indirectly by setting the text of the menu button. For example I often used mouseDown to build and set the text of me to tData where tData was loaded with a few lines of whatever I wanted the menu selection to look like.
on mouseDown set the text of me to "Buy Low" & cr & "Sell High" end mouseDown on menuPick theItem if theitem is "Buy Low" then <or> if the menuHistory of me is 1 then answer "Sell your car" else answer "Buy a new car" end if end menuPick You can use switch/case instead of if/then for more control over decision making. To set the menu items indirectly through script, you can easily do this through another handler (instead of the mouseDown) that builds the menu items one per line and then "set" the text of the menu button to the container holding the menu items you just built. Once the menupick occurs you can check for the text of the item itself and make decisions or check the menuHistory of the button to find out what line was selected. I hope I'm in sync with your question. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ jim schaubeck jimschaub...@yahoo.com/ 714.321.4499 ________________________________ From: Peter Bogdanoff <bogdan...@me.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:20 PM Subject: menuPick Hi, I have a menu that I'm creating the text for dynamically. So, on menuPick I want to do something based on the menu item chosen. However, it will vary all the time. Can I get the number of the line of the menu that was chosen? How do I handle dynamically-generated menu items? Peter Bogdanoff UCLA _______________________________________________ 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
