I am misunderstanding. In an option menu, if I have, say, the second line of the text of the button as empty, I get empty in the selected choice. This has nothing to do with the name of the button itself, which does not show itself, nor the state of the show name.
This is the behavior of an ordinary button, where if the label is not empty, then that label is shown as the "name" of the button, taking the place of the actual name. What am I missing? Craig -----Original Message----- From: Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 9:52 pm Subject: menu buttons and showname I've struggled with using the showName property of a menu button pretty much ever since I started using LC and beginning to wonder if I'm missing something. The showName property needs to be true for the the user's selected choice from, for example, an option menu to be displayed. First problem - that's the label not the name. But if the text of the menu happens to be empty, its name is displayed instead of empty which normally isn't something you want to happen. The dictionary says "If the object <https://inbox.google.com/u/1/glossary/o/329.xml> has a *label* property <https://inbox.google.com/u/1/glossary/p/391.xml>, the label <https://inbox.google.com/u/1/dictionary/property/2173.xml> is displayed instead of the name." but I have not found that to be the case. If a menu button has non-empty text and label and you set the text to empty, its name is displayed, not the label. A good number of my menus are populated in a mouseDown handler with dynamic content which may be empty. My workaround has been to check for empty and either set the button text to space, or set the showName property to false and be sure to set it to true in the menu's menuPick handler. This isn't a huge deal but am I missing something obvious? Wouldn't be the first time. _______________________________________________ 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