Richard Miller wrote:
I have a pulldown button with data in it that makes it act as a
cascading menu. When the user selects an item, I need to know which item
has been selected... not just the text, but the line number or some
other data that would let me know which item was selected, so I can get
more info about that item from an associated database.
The problem I have is that many of the lines in the cascading menu
appear identical by name, though they are not the same item. It's just
that the label assigned by the user is the same (they represent names of
videos.... and the user can name them any way they want, even though the
actual file names are different).
I think the only way is to simply disallow duplicate labels. That's not
an unrealistic expectation. When the user assigns a label, check to be
sure it isn't already in use, and prompt them to change it if it is. Or
have a script assign a trailing number as you mentioned.
After that, you can use offset() to find the line number in the text of
the button, but you probably won't need to. If the labels are different,
regular menupick methods will work. Set the itemdelimiter to pipe ("|")
and read the second "item" of the menupick parameter.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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