Using a field as a menu

[Jim Carwardine]

I started with a substack but didn't know about the popup command.  I'll
give it a go.  Thanks... Jim

on 2/18/04 6:33 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 2/18/04 2:17 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote:
> 
>> I want to create a button that pulls down a menu of colour choices similar
>> to what you might see in MS Word or Excel.  To do that, I've created a plain
>> button that, when the mouse is down I show a field with several buttons
>> displayed in front of it so the effect looks like a menu which the user then
>> drags the mouse over the button showing the colour they want and select it.
>> 
>> The behaviour I want is to show the focus border as they drag across a
>> colour button, then have the colour button accept the mouseUp and execute a
>> colour change several text fields.  It seems as as though the first button
>> keeps control of the mouse until the mouse button is released.  I seem to
>> recall someone mentioning something similar to this but I can't find any
>> references to it.  Has this been discussed or is there an easier way?  Jim
> 
> This is a good candidate for making a substack and popping it up with
> the "popup" command. You can put anything you want in the first card of
> the substack. Usually it is a bunch of buttons stacked in a column. I
> haven't tried using anything else (like color fields,) but in theory it
> should work. When you popup the substack, each line auto-hilites just
> like a menu does. You don't have to do anything special to get the effect.

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