Re: Popup location and direction

2010-03-18 Thread stephen barncard
From the docs: * popup {stack | button} [at location]* On 18 March 2010 12:14, Jeffrey Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to force a popup to go in a certain direction? For example, if I have a popup button at the bottom of a stack, I'd like it to always appear above the popup

Re: Popup location and direction

2010-03-18 Thread Jeffrey Massung
On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:27 PM, stephen barncard wrote: From the docs: * popup {stack | button} [at location]* Yes, I know. But that only deals with location, not direction as well. I'd like the popup to only grow in the up direction or down direction (based on context) and only extend

Re: Popup location and direction

2010-03-18 Thread DunbarX
There is a constraint when the edge of the screen is nearby. A menu currently with a menuHistory of 1 will still open upward if the popup would otherwise drop below the screenrect. But I think you might have to roll your own; I do not see any property that deals with the direction of travel. I

Re: popup command cross-platform

2010-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: So, I'm seeing different functionality w/ the popup command on OS X and Win32, wondering if I should mark this as a bug, and also wondering if anyone has a work-around? -- in a field's script on mouseUp set the backgroundColor of me to black popup btn some menu set

Re: popup command cross-platform

2010-03-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 3/4/10 4:59 PM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: So, I'm seeing different functionality w/ the popup command on OS X and Win32, wondering if I should mark this as a bug, and also wondering if anyone has a work-around? -- in a field's script on mouseUp set the backgroundColor

Re: popup command cross-platform

2010-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Massung
On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Ken Ray wrote: All I can suggest is what I ended up having to do... make sure that the popup command was the last thing encountered in the mouseDown handler, and then have the menuPick of the btn being popped handle what happens when they release the mouse

Re: Popup menu selection

2010-02-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeffrey Massung wrote: I have a couple pop-up button menus that I create on-the-fly (in mouseDown) based on what's going on. They also act as combo box selections, where one of the items is current, with !r in front of it. Is it possible for me to somehow tell the popup to auto-magically

Re: Popup menu selection

2010-02-18 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: To counter this, Ken Ray and I have adopted a habit of using a handler like this one to set an option control's current choice: on SetOption pBtnName, pNum lock messages set the menuHistory of btn pBtnName to pNum unlock messages end

Re: Popup menu selection

2010-02-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: To counter this, Ken Ray and I have adopted a habit of using a handler like this one to set an option control's current choice: on SetOption pBtnName, pNum lock messages set the menuHistory of btn pBtnName to pNum

Re: Popup menu selection

2010-02-18 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: While looking into the lockMessages property recently I came across this note: The lockMessages property is automatically set to false when a palette, modeless, or modal stack is opened, even if a handler is still running. This

Re: Popup menu selection

2010-02-18 Thread stephen barncard
Hi Gang, This brings me right to an issue I'm having. I have a tricky thing that uses several cards in a single stack used as a drawer. I want to go cleanly to a certain card in the stack before the drawer is displayed. What's the best way to make the drawer open cleanly without showing another

Re: Popup menu selection

2010-02-18 Thread Jeff Massung
Stephen, I haven't tried it, but can you use the go invisible command to go to the card and then use the drawer command to display the stack as a drawer? Jeff M. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:09 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: Hi Gang, This brings me right to an

Re: popup-/contextmenu in Editor field of DataGrid?

2009-09-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sep 11, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi all (and Trevor :-) Hi Klaus :-) Any hints on how to popup a menu in the Editor field of a DataGrid? I want to let the user choose pre-made text to insert into that column, know what I mean? This lesson shows how to trigger the data

Re: popup-/contextmenu in Editor field of DataGrid?

2009-09-11 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Trevor, On Sep 11, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi all (and Trevor :-) Hi Klaus :-) Any hints on how to popup a menu in the Editor field of a DataGrid? I want to let the user choose pre-made text to insert into that column, know what I mean? This lesson shows how to trigger

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Josep wrote: Hello Jaqueline, So, from the button search mouseup I call on search and from menu pick call on markOption, isn't? Yes, that's right. Every control call custom handler that share some local variables. Maybe this is best that every control have her code, with this way is more

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-03 Thread Josep
Hello Jaqueline, So, from the button search mouseup I call on search and from menu pick call on markOption, isn't? Every control call custom handler that share some local variables. Maybe this is best that every control have her code, with this way is more easy of mantain the code, but is good

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-02 Thread Josep
Hello Jaqueline, As global isn't? I ask this to know what is better if I need pass values between handlers... Globals is the easy way but I don't know how affect the globals to the entire app if one abuse of this. Use custom prop is other way, but for this case I don't think that will be more

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Josep wrote: Hello Jaqueline, As global isn't? I ask this to know what is better if I need pass values between handlers... Globals is the easy way but I don't know how affect the globals to the entire app if one abuse of this. Use custom prop is other way, but for this case I don't think that

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-02 Thread Josep
Hello Jaqueline, Local at stack level? Where I must define it? I don't see... Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Popup-menu-bug--tp23814764p23843347.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
Josep wrote: Hello Jaqueline, Local at stack level? Where I must define it? I don't see... A script local variable is like a global variable but it only applies to a single script. If you declare a script local at the top of the script, any handler in the same script can use it. Handlers in

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Josep wrote: Hi list, I found this... maybe I doing something wrong but... Create a popup menu with many options. In the popupmenu put this: on menuPick pItemName Global pOldItem put pItemName into fld lbl_search replace !c with in line lineOffset(pOldItem,button opt_search) of

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-01 Thread Josep
Hello Jaqueline, But I need perform the DB stuff inside the search button. Maybe I can use a global for build the SQL and exec from the button... isn't? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Popup-menu-bug--tp23814764p23823497.html Sent from the Revolution - User

Re: Popup menu bug?

2009-06-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Josep wrote: Hello Jaqueline, But I need perform the DB stuff inside the search button. Maybe I can use a global for build the SQL and exec from the button... isn't? You could store the value of pItemName from the menupick handler, then use that in your search button to create the DB query.

Re: popup command: bug please confirm?

2007-07-07 Thread Ken Ray
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:23:18 +0100, David Bovill wrote: If you download this test stack (or just read on) - try clicking on the player and selecting or cancelling the menu - you get the card script triggered and there is no way to stop / block it? If you select and ungroup the player the card

Re: popup command: bug please confirm?

2007-07-07 Thread David Bovill
No - the group has an empty script and background behaviour is not turned on. On 07/07/07, Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:23:18 +0100, David Bovill wrote: If you download this test stack (or just read on) - try clicking on the player and selecting or cancelling the

Re: popup command: bug please confirm?

2007-07-07 Thread Dave Cragg
On 7 Jul 2007, at 13:23, David Bovill wrote: I had a look and see what you mean. Sending the popup command in a send ... in time message seems to stop the card script firing. That might help you. on mouseDown send popitup to me in 150 milliseconds end mouseDown on popitup put the

Re: popup command: bug please confirm?

2007-07-07 Thread Ralf Bitter
Confirmed, MacBook Pro 2.33, 10.4.10, Rev 2.8.1 471 How about the following workaround? Player script: global gPreviousTarget on mouseDown put the target into gPreviousTarget put the long id of btn _Player Menu into mButton popup mButton end mouseDown Card script: global

Re: popup command: bug please confirm?

2007-07-07 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Ralf, Dave... Dave what platform did you confirm this on? On 07/07/07, Ralf Bitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Confirmed, MacBook Pro 2.33, 10.4.10, Rev 2.8.1 471 How about the following workaround? Thanks for the suggestion but its no good as I want the card to be a clean (layout)

Re: popup command: bug please confirm?

2007-07-07 Thread Dave Cragg
On 7 Jul 2007, at 17:11, David Bovill wrote: Thanks Ralf, Dave... Dave what platform did you confirm this on? OS X 10.4.10. Rev 2.8.1 gm2 Intel iMac Is this new to 2.8.1 - seems hard to believe that it has not been picked up before? Perhaps, but did you not only find it beacause of

Re: Popup Menus on Windows vs. Mac

2007-01-27 Thread Martin Blackman
I don't get that behaviour on Windows, maybe check that the button menumode is 'popup'. On 25/01/07, kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All - I am using the popup button command to open a menu and on Windows you have to keep the mouse held down in order to select from the menu that pops up. On

RE: popup?

2006-11-05 Thread Robert Mann
I found this ask field Prompt titled Enter your Comment! it give a OK and Cancel buttons if you type into the popup text field box it does not place the text into the prompt field, how do I now pass this info so that I can run a SQLupdate with this new info after the OK button is pressed? Thanks

RE: popup?

2006-11-05 Thread Robert Mann
ask field Prompt titled Enter your Comment! put it into tcomment this seems to work? Robert Mann ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: popup?

2006-11-05 Thread Martin Baxter
Robert Mann wrote: ask field Prompt titled Enter your Comment! put it into tcomment this seems to work? Robert Mann Yes, though I might do this: if it is not empty then put it into tcomment end if # it will be empty if the user cancelled # Although, in actual practice, when retrieving a

RE: popup?

2006-11-05 Thread Robert Mann
Thanks, I will do this from now on. Robert Mann -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Baxter Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:15 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: popup? Robert Mann wrote: ask field Prompt titled Enter your

Re: Popup problem under Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. I have never used a mouseDown. I don't know if it's any different from a mouseUp (simply because when you click on the mouse, you have to release !). I have copied popUp buttons which work and then adjusted them (that was my first attempt !), and it didn't work.

Re: Popup problem under Windows

2006-05-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Francis, Op 6-mei-2006, om 23:20 heeft Francis Nugent Dixon het volgende geschreven: Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. I have never used a mouseDown. I don't know if it's any different from a mouseUp (simply because when you click on the mouse, you have to release !). I believe it is

Re: Popup problem under Windows

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello Francis, Why don't you use a mouseDown handler instead of a mouseUp handler? Is the actual popup menu visible? What happens if you try to recreate it by duplicating one of the correctly working buttons and adjusting that? I have lots to do this weekend, but you can send me your

Re: Popup Button Help Needed

2006-02-14 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Bonjour Eric, I do not understand what you mean by using a message box. Merci, -Garrett On Feb 13, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Hi Garret, Just set the TraversalOn of your popup menu button to false: Not possible in the property inspector so use the message box as an

Re: Popup Button Help Needed

2006-02-14 Thread Eric Chatonet
Bonjour Garret :-) Just type in the message box: set the traversalOn of btn Menu button Name to false And press enter :-) Le 14 févr. 06 à 09:08, Garrett Hylltun a écrit : Bonjour Eric, I do not understand what you mean by using a message box. Merci, -Garrett On Feb 13, 2006, at 11:05 PM,

Re: Popup Button Help Needed

2006-02-14 Thread Garrett Hylltun
Ah.. Got it! Merci beaucoup Eric :-) On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote: Bonjour Garret :-) Just type in the message box: set the traversalOn of btn Menu button Name to false And press enter :-) Le 14 févr. 06 à 09:08, Garrett Hylltun a écrit : Bonjour Eric, I

Re: Popup Button Help Needed

2006-02-13 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Garret, Just set the TraversalOn of your popup menu button to false: Not possible in the property inspector so use the message box as an alternative way :-) set the traversalOn of btn MyMenu to false Le 14 févr. 06 à 07:59, Garrett Hylltun a écrit : I have a bit of a problem with my

Re: Popup menu

2006-01-05 Thread Marty Knapp
Ken Ray wrote: On 1/4/06 10:32 PM, Marty Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mouseDown script in a field that pops up a menu from a hidden button. It works fine on my Mac, but not my PC - any clues? Well, can you post the script so we can see what's going on? That would be

Re: Popup menu

2006-01-05 Thread FlexibleLearning
Hi Marty, I also had this issue. The btn has to be visible, it seems - Set the btn as visible but off screen (bottomRight at -100,-100) - Cover the btn by an opaque graphic or an opaque group HTP /H I have a mouseDown script in a field that pops up a menu from a hidden button. It

Re: Popup menu

2006-01-04 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/4/06 10:32 PM, Marty Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mouseDown script in a field that pops up a menu from a hidden button. It works fine on my Mac, but not my PC - any clues? Well, can you post the script so we can see what's going on? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site:

Re: popup of menu

2005-11-01 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Ton Kuypers wrote: In the old days, when I didn't know better, I was using SuperCard. I seem to recall there was a possibility to popup menu's with a basic value... What I mean is the user selected item 27 from a menu and the next time he opened the menu, the menu showed item 27

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread Ton Kuypers
Scott, MenuHistory is indeed is the function I need, but this doesn't work for buttons of type popup. Furthermore it is very strange that you would have to supply a number instead of the text selected... I'm displaying data from a database, when a user clicks on a record he gets the data

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread David Burgun
Hi, All you have to do is this: function GetMenuItem theMenuItemName put lineOffset(theMenuItemName,the text of button popUp) into my myMenuItem return myMenuItem Then use it like this: set the menuHistory of button popUp to GetMenuItem(TheMenuString) All the Best Dave Scott,

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread Ton Kuypers
Dave, That is something I already implemented, right after Scott Rossi's suggestion... But the problem is that menuHistory doesn't work for buttons with the menu type Pop Up :-(( Ton On 1-nov-05, at 17:06, David Burgun wrote: Hi, All you have to do is this: function GetMenuItem

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread David Burgun
Have you tried: select line GetMeniItem(theMenuString) of me This may work. All the Best Dave Dave, That is something I already implemented, right after Scott Rossi's suggestion... But the problem is that menuHistory doesn't work for buttons with the menu type Pop Up :-(( Ton On

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread Chipp Walters
Maybe an option menu would work for you? It always displays the last choice in it's label. Or, take a look at putting !c before the line you wish selected in the popup menu. This will create a check mark showing the user which is selected. The problem with popping it up over the 'default'

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread Ton Kuypers
:-( Unless I misunderstood what you ment, it doesn't work... I have a button on the card of type pop up named TestMenu This button has got 10 lines of text, which creates a menu of 10 items. I have one field on the card named Test The button contains the following code: on mouseDown

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread David Burgun
Just one more! Try this: select line fGetMenuItem(fld TestField) of the text of me About 1000 to 1 odds on it working tho! All the Best Dave :-( Unless I misunderstood what you ment, it doesn't work... I have a button on the card of type pop up named TestMenu This button has got 10

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread Ton Kuypers
:-( Not working either... I give up, will probably switch to another kind of menu... Thanks anyway! Ton On 1-nov-05, at 18:25, David Burgun wrote: Just one more! Try this: select line fGetMenuItem(fld TestField) of the text of me About 1000 to 1 odds on it working tho! All the

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Ton, Although you have given up, you might want to consider this, which seems to work in a simple test stack. The flimsy part of this is that you need to know the height of a menuitem in your popup, and I don't know a way to get this programmatically. I did a screenshot and measured it at

Re: popup of menu (functionality not correct implemented...)

2005-11-01 Thread Ton Kuypers
Martin, Interesting approach... I will see if it is working in my app, thanks for the effort! regards, Ton Kuypers On 1-nov-05, at 22:23, Martin Baxter wrote: Ton, Although you have given up, you might want to consider this, which seems to work in a simple test stack. The flimsy part

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Stephen Barncard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know there's some kind of trick here to do this; I have an unlocked, editable field with text. I select a portion of the text, then option click on it for a popup that has a few options to select from to do something to the text, like

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-21 Thread Stephen Barncard
Thanks, Jan. I forgot that often some checkboxes for properties are left out of the IDE... and the button's traversalOn was one of them. At 2:42 AM -0700 5/21/05, Jan Schenkel wrote: Hi Stephen, The following trick works on both Win and Mac: set the traversalOn of the popup menu button to

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Stephen- Saturday, May 21, 2005, 5:52:14 AM, you wrote: SB Thanks, Jan. I forgot that often some checkboxes for properties are SB left out of the IDE... and the button's traversalOn was one of them. As Jacque recently pointed out to me, the focusable property in the property inspector is the

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread xbury . cs
Hi Stephen, here's what you need: [script] local mylastselection on mousedown x put the selectedchunk of me into mylastselection if mylastselection is not empty then select mylastselection if x is 3 then lock messages popup EditMenu at the mouseloc end if -- pass mousedown end

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Stephen, I have seen Xavier answer. Unfortunately, it does not work with Mac OS: you can't prevent text deselection when popping up a menu. But ;-) Only a not really satisfying workaround: Set the hiliteColor of your field (#B5D5FF for standard Mac OS for instance). Then, in the script of

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread xbury . cs
Eric, I dont have a minimac to test this but... in the popup menu stack, you could insert a selection handler in the pre-openstack... Would that work? cheers Xavier On 20.05.2005 09:19:53 use-revolution-bounces wrote: Hi Stephen, I have seen Xavier answer. Unfortunately, it does not work

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/19/05 11:56 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: I know there's some kind of trick here to do this; I have an unlocked, editable field with text. I select a portion of the text, then option click on it for a popup that has a few options to select from to do something to the text, like uppercase,

RE: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread MisterX
Xav -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 17:18 To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field On 5/19/05 11:56 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote: I know there's

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread Stephen Barncard
Mister X, Eric, thanks for your help - Eric is right, your code won't work on MacOS. There are forces at work here fighting me with some 'automatic' behavior in regard to the selection in a field. One thing it's trying to do is to select a single word, then it hangs on to that selection. My

Re: popup in selected text in unlocked field

2005-05-20 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Stephen, Did you see Jacqueline's answer: I think she is right even if it's quite a job... All the more reason since you might want to be cross-platform... Le 20 mai 05 à 20:51, Stephen Barncard a écrit : Mister X, Eric, thanks for your help - Eric is right, your code won't work on MacOS.

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-16 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tabbing between controls ...minimizes the mouse-to-keyboard and keyboard-to-mouse time, which can be especially useful for apps that are heavy in text input). also less repetitive use of muscles and joints. Erik Hansen = [EMAIL

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-16 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I temporarily switched to show the transcript property name ... why temporarily? Erik Hansen = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Erik Hansen wrote: --- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see a focus with keyboard option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! in Edit Preferences you can choose between using actual Transcript terms like traversalOn and descriptive phrases

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I temporarily switched to show the transcript property name, and this still does not reveal a traversalOn for the popup menu. Apparently this is an omission from the property window of a menu button? On Oct 12, 2004, at 3:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Erik Hansen wrote: --- Frank D. Engel, Jr.

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: I temporarily switched to show the transcript property name, and this still does not reveal a traversalOn for the popup menu. I see it in the Basic Properties panel, fourth control from the bottom. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
The fourth control from the bottom of mine (depending on how you count) would seem to be Menu Items? I posted a screenshot of an example of my properties window (at http://www.fjrhome.net/basic-image.tiff) so that you can see what I get for a popup menu. I am using 2.5 under OS X. On Oct 12,

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: The fourth control from the bottom of mine (depending on how you count) would seem to be Menu Items? I posted a screenshot of an example of my properties window (at http://www.fjrhome.net/basic-image.tiff) so that you can see what I get for a popup menu. I am using

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I came in late on this thread: what was the reason for turning off traversalOn? Maybe there's another way to handle that which won't cripple your Win version if you're making one. Leaving traversalOn on causes text

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 12, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I came in late on this thread: what was the reason for turning off traversalOn? Maybe there's another way to handle that which won't cripple your Win version if

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
This is not from a menu group, just a simple popup button. There are three of them, and they are located below the edit field on the form. Roughly like this: --- [ ] [ ] [

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
set the traversalOn of your popups to false. you can do so by clicking focus with keyboard on the inspector. On Oct 11 2004, at 23:13, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: ... Is there any way to keep a popup menu from deselecting text in a field on the same card stack as the popup menu itself? ...

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I don't see a focus with keyboard option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! Thank you. On Oct 11, 2004, at 5:17 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: set the traversalOn of your popups to false. you can do so by clicking focus with keyboard on the inspector. On Oct 11

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Frank D. Engel, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see a focus with keyboard option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! in Edit Preferences you can choose between using actual Transcript terms like traversalOn and descriptive phrases like focus with

Re: popup menus stop working...

2004-10-08 Thread Troy Rollins
On Oct 8, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: As mentioned, no short term fix, but there is an avoidance technique. My understanding is that it's a limitation of resources, something like no more than X number of this control type. So try limiting how many stacks you open with large numbers

Re: popup menus stop working...

2004-10-07 Thread Michael J. Lew
Chipp asked about a workaround for popups eventually failing (IDE menus get truncated at the same time for me). As far as I know there isn't a workaround apart from restarting Rev, but Tuviah claims to have fixed the problem (see bugzilla #2114 and #2126). In my opinion the issue is a big

Re: popup menus stop working...

2004-10-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Well, it would certainly be a great way to test the new self-updating feature of 2.5 (which I really like). I also hope the engine cursor problems are fixed as well. best, Chipp Michael J. Lew wrote: In my opinion the issue is a big enough problem that we should have had a new release of 2.5

Re: popup - pulldown command

2004-06-28 Thread Wouter
Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com Mon Jun 28 02:53:19 EDT 2004 Hi Wouter, In what sense can it not replace the looks? -- on mouseDown popup btn Foobar at the bottomLeft of me end mouseDown -- Admittedly I use Windows, but I don't think there's much difference on other platforms. Jan

Re: popup - pulldown command

2004-06-26 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 1:24 AM +0200 6/25/2004, Wouter wrote: Does someone have a logical explanation why the popup command acts on stacks and buttons whereas the pulldown command only acts on stacks? Normally, you access a pulldown menu by clicking the visible menu on the screen. But popup menus are usually used as

Re: popup and background reference

2003-01-01 Thread David Vaughan
On Wednesday, Jan 1, 2003, at 18:39 Australia/Sydney, Dar Scott wrote: snip should take more care when I'm tired. Dar Aren't you on U.S. Mountain time or thereabouts? By my estimate (where 2003 arrived nearly twenty hours ago) you ought to have been into the new morning when your wrote

Re: popup and background reference

2002-12-31 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 7:23 PM -0800 12/31/02, Dar Scott wrote: on mouseDown popup button Hidden Popup of background Hidden end mouseDown This works fine if the group containing the popup button is on the same card but does not work if it is not. What am I doing wrong? I quote myself (from the dictionary entry

Re: popup and background reference

2002-12-31 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 08:41 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: I quote myself (from the dictionary entry for popup): The button is a reference to a button on the current card. My face is red. I had read the dictionary entry and didn't see that. And it really is quite clear. I

Re: PopUp Menus

2002-11-19 Thread Yves Coppé
Title: Re: PopUp Menus Hello, You wrote : The trick with hierarchical menus is that pWhichItem is a composition of the item, sub-item and sub-sub-item you picked, sepoarated by a |. So in the above menu structure, if the user selects item A23, the engine sends a menuPick to your button

Re: Popup Menu - Show on mouse over

2002-10-17 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 6:57 AM -0700 10/15/2002, Simon Forster wrote: Are there some sample applications available to use as tutorials? I've been through the tutorials supplied (barring the Independent Study one) and they don't really help me with the syntax and structure of Rev apps. I would go ahead and try out

RE: Popup Menu - Show on mouse over

2002-10-17 Thread Jan Schenkel
Recently, Simon Forster asked: On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 12:31 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: on mouseEnter popup me end mouseEnter Jan Many thanks. Next series of questions if I may: - How do I hide the popup on mouseLeave? [snip] Hi Simon, As Sarah already answered

Re: Popup Menu - Show on mouse over

2002-10-15 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Simon Forster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm struggling to get to grips with RunRev's syntax. The simple example I've set myself is to show the contents of a popup menu on mouse over. I have the menu button and, on clicking it, it shows the menu content. To do the same on mouse over,

Re: Popup Menu - Show on mouse over

2002-10-15 Thread Simon Forster
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 12:31 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: on mouseEnter popup me end mouseEnter Jan Many thanks. Next series of questions if I may: - How do I hide the popup on mouseLeave? Which actually takes me to the next point... - If I've managed to hide the whole

Re: Popup by card

2002-06-30 Thread David Vaughan
On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 03:11 , David Vaughan wrote: I am reinventing a HyperCard application which, among many other things, stores on a card the sector to which a company belongs. I used to enter this text in a field in the HC version but that led to errors of memory and of

Re: popUp btn

2002-04-12 Thread Klaus Major
Bon soir mon ami :-) Hi, I made a btn with a popUp menu with menuItems and submenu items one two    oneofTwo    twoofTwo three four   oneoffour   twooffour when i choose a menuItem (one or three) the selectedText return the chosen one when I choose a subMenuItem

Re: popUp Menu

2002-01-12 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 10:50 AM -0800 1/11/2002, yves COPPE wrote: 1) When I create a card from a script, I must write afterwards : place grouop xxx place group yyy the groups are not copied onto the new card systematically as it was with bg flds or bg btns in HC. Is it possible to have the flds and btns

Re: popUp Menu

2002-01-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 9:37 AM +0100 1/11/02, yves COPPE wrote: i'd like a popUp menu in a list fld with locked text on. So with a mouseStillDown script, it would be possible. How can I write the script ? When the user select an item of the popup menu, the selectedtext should come at the location of the clickedLine

Re: popUp Menu

2002-01-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
At 1:33 PM +0100 1/11/02, yves COPPE wrote: it works fine, butŠ if I click an empty line in the fld, how can I know the number of the clicked line ? If it's an actual line that simply has no text, for example, between the words is and a below: this is a test then the clickline will still

Re: popUp Menu

2002-01-11 Thread yves COPPE
If it's an actual line that simply has no text, for example, between the words is and a below: this is a test then the clickline will still return a valid result. If the user clicks below where there is any text, you can catch that with the mouseRelease message (and maybe a check to see if