Using a field as a menu

[Jim Carwardine]

This gives a contextual menu where the upper left of the popup stack is at
the position of the mouse click.  Also, the border of the menu is missing so
it blends in with the background of the card.  Is there a way to force the
upper left of the popup stack to be the lower left of the button that shows
it?  

How can I get a border around the popup stack and get the focus border to
show around the button in the popup stack?   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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