Actually I **thought** it was solved because a test stack worked. Now in my
real stack, it doesn't seem to work. Basically I have the button menu in an
obscure card in a mainstack somewhere, and the mouseDowns can easily be shown
to be reaching this stack and even this button, but the popup doesn't pop up.
My mouseDown handler looks like this
on mouseDown
if <conditions like it's a right-click on a non-textLocked field> then
popup btn "mycontextmenu" of cd "myobscurecard" of "mystackfaraway"
else
pass mouseDown
end if
end mouseDown
I can make the menu appear by executing the above 'popup' line from the
message box, so both the path and the format of the button are right. I can set
a breakpoint in the mouseDown handler at the line immediately above the 'popup'
line, and the code stops at that point, but with or without the breakpoint, no
popup. I just can't see what I'm doing wrong, tho it's probably blindingly
obvious. Sadly one can't breakpoint the actual popup action, only the script of
the button after the popup action has taken place.
I just noticed that in the LC documentation for 'popup', it says (of using a
button as a popup menu)
> The button is a reference to a button on the current card.
well, my button isn't on the current card, but I constructed a test rig which
shows it doesn't have to be, so that calls for a correction to the docs rather
than providing an explanation for my problem.
Sadly Jacque is on a plane somewhere - can anyone else help?
Graham
On 9 May 2013, at 22:55, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Thanks Jacque for your (three) replies, Problem solved - it seems a lot
> clearer the way you explain it!
>
> Graham
>
> On 9 May 2013, at 22:20, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> On 5/9/13 2:54 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>> I could not work out if each field
>>> would need its own button
>>
>> Forgot to answer that part. You only need one button. It will pop up under
>> the mouse whenever it's called.
>>
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