I started with a substack but didn't know about the popup command. I'll give it a go. Thanks... Jim
on 2/18/04 6:33 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/18/04 2:17 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote: > >> I want to create a button that pulls down a menu of colour choices similar >> to what you might see in MS Word or Excel. To do that, I've created a plain >> button that, when the mouse is down I show a field with several buttons >> displayed in front of it so the effect looks like a menu which the user then >> drags the mouse over the button showing the colour they want and select it. >> >> The behaviour I want is to show the focus border as they drag across a >> colour button, then have the colour button accept the mouseUp and execute a >> colour change several text fields. It seems as as though the first button >> keeps control of the mouse until the mouse button is released. I seem to >> recall someone mentioning something similar to this but I can't find any >> references to it. Has this been discussed or is there an easier way? Jim > > This is a good candidate for making a substack and popping it up with > the "popup" command. You can put anything you want in the first card of > the substack. Usually it is a bunch of buttons stacked in a column. I > haven't tried using anything else (like color fields,) but in theory it > should work. When you popup the substack, each line auto-hilites just > like a menu does. You don't have to do anything special to get the effect. -- OYF is... Highly resourceful people working together. <http://www.OwnYourFuture-net.com> Own Your Future Consulting Services Limited, 1959 Upper Water Street, Suite 407, Halifax, Nova Scotia. B3J 3N2 Info Line: 902-823-2477, Phone: 902-823-2339. Fax: 902-823-2139 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
