Hi Pete,
Simplified by putting addEllipsis into the menu script.
put the script below into OpenCard handler
on openCard
put revDataFromQuery(tab, return, the uDB of stack "THFinancials", "select
categoryName from 'categoryList' order by categoryName asc") into tCatNames
set the text of cd btn "CategoryMenu" to tCatNames
set the menuHistory of cd btn "CategoryMenu" to 2
put the menuHistory of cd btn "CategoryMenu" into tA
set the menuHistory of cd btn "CategoryMenu" to 1
put the menuHistory of cd btn "CategoryMenu" into tB
put tA & "," & tB
end openCard
put the other methods into the button script
on menuPick pItemName
lock screen
addEllipsis pItemName
unlock screen
end menuPick
on addEllipsis @pItemName
put the width of me - 15 into tW
set the label of me to pItemName
put the formattedWidth of me into tSize
if tSize > tW then
repeat with x = length(pItemName) down to 1
set the label of me to (char 1 to x of pItemName) & "..."
if the formattedWidth of me < tW then
exit repeat
else
put x-1 into tMax
put char 1 to tMax of pItemName & "..." into tLabel
end if
end repeat
set the label of me to tLabel
end if
end addEllipsis
Changed menuHistory to 0 first and then to 1.
Have noted if you use 0 in MenuHistory then it uses 1.
If I use 2 first then it changes to 2 then to 1 but menuPick does not get
called.
MenuPick is getting called on openCard but the label with the ellipses is not
sticking, it reverts back to pItemName.
If I call menuPick via dropping the menu down it works correctly.
All the best
Terry
On 13 Mar 2014, at 15:34, Peter Haworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the menu history of the button is already 1, no menuPick will be
> generated. Try setting the menu History to zero then 1.
>
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