I'll use LC as an example. Lets say you have an application that needs to provide the ability to pick a card from any of the open stacks. The option menu would list the stacks with subitems for the cards in each stack.
Same sort of thing for perhaps CDs in a music collection. The first level items are the CD names and the second level would be the tracks on the CD. You could even imagine a three level hierarchy in that instance - Artists, CDs, tracks. I'm happy to use a pulldown menu but its behavior just seems odd in terms of the menuHistory not being reflected in what's displayed in the menu. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > Pete- > > Saturday, December 29, 2012, 2:13:06 PM, you wrote: > > > It seems that you cannot have cascading items in an option menu. The > > secondary items appear as first level items with a tab before them. > > > As far I can tell, I have to use a pulldown menu to be able to use > > cascading menu items. However, no matter which item you choose on a > > pulldown menu, when the choice has been processed, the pulldown menu > shows > > its first item not the one that was selected. The menuHistory of the > > pulldown menu is correct but I have to set its label to get the chosen > item > > to show. > > > So, no cascading items on option menus and menuHistory has no effect on > > pulldown menus. Is that all expected behavior? > > I'm not sure I've ever seen (or wanted) a cascading option menu on any > application. Is there an advantage to using an option menu for this? > Can you point me to any application that's got one? > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode