On Jul 15, 2004, at 7:12 PM, jeanne a. e. devoto wrote:
At 10:19 AM -0400 7/15/04, Jim Lyons wrote:I am missing something really basic about using combo boxes. ... How do I get/set the contents of the field?
To get (from "How to determine the current selection in a menu"): get the selectedText of button "My Combobox"
Nope, this does not give you the contents of the field. It returns empty.
To set the field contents to one of the choices in the menu (from "How to change the selected item in an option menu or combo box"): set the menuHistory of button "My Combobox" to 2 -- or whatever line
Yes ma'm, I know how to do this part. 8^)
I actually don't think there's any way to set the field contents to a line that's not in the menu from a script. (Does anyone know of one?)
Richard Gaskin said to use "the effective label", and in fact this works, as does just "label". I searched on "effective label" and got just one hit, on "label", and it very clearly explains this use for combo boxes. I wondered why I hadn't found this in the docs, so I went back and repeated the search on "combo box". It did not return the entry for "label" among the 22 hits. 8^/ (Rev 2.2.1 OS 10.3)
Anyway, thanks for the reply. I use the docs dozens of times a day and usually find exactly what I want, along with several other useful things I didn't know. Can't wait to see the new version...
Jim Lyons
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