Craig, Have you checked out TTS syntax yet? Blech.
Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:59 PM, dunbarx <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, all, for the feedback. So that is the accepted way then: > > "doMenu", a command, is replaced by sending "menuPick", a message, to a > button, an object, renamed in this special case a "menu"? > > Well, OK, it works alright, but why not a simple command, oh, like, um, > "doMenu"? Instead we have a procedure. > > It seems untoward that a button, a native object, should be renamed at all, > characterized merely by its style. It is a tear in an otherwise smooth > fabric. Was it just so the procedure reads better? And if so, why isn't that > procedure at least formally presented in the docs, as a methodology for what > I can only think of as that missing command? Am I the only one that uses > this all the time? > > If the formal syntax for the invoking of menu commands was written down: > > send "menuPick" && "menuItem" to menu "menuName" > > then it would imply that Rev contains a native menu object, like HC. You > can only send messages to objects, right? > > I have a scrolling field "myField", can I say: put "foo" into scrolling > "myField"? > > I am not whining. I am going on and on. > > Craig Newman > > > On Mar 3, 2009, at 7:29:19 PM, "Mark Wieder" <[email protected]> > wrote: > You can certainly send the "menuPick" message to a button, but it > won't be caught unless the button's style is set to "menu". > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
