Can't get Combo option button to action code.

[CAsba]

Hi,
I've been trying to get the user's choice from a combo button into a field. Nothing I tried worked so I tried testing if a simple dialog would work, code...

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on menu pick
        answer "hhhh"  
end menu pick

but it didn't.
So obviously, more rarified code wouldn't work either.
Any ideas why the dialog doesn't appear on clicking on an option ?

[Klaus]

You want to use:

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on menupick the_picked_item
  answer the_picked_item
end menupick

Hint: The dictionary is way better than its reputation!

[CAsba]

Many, many thanks, Klaus. I can now see my way through this phase of my project.

[dunbarx]

CAsba.

Be careful, "menuPick" is a message. it is not "menu pick"

Craig

[CAsba]

Thanks, Dunbarx.

[richmond62]

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Did I miss something?

[Klaus]

Did I miss something?

Yes, you did!
Take a look at the initial posting.

[richmond62]

OK:

the user's choice from a combo button into a field

[Klaus]

OK:

the user's choice from a combo button into a field

Sigh, look at the script...

[richmond62]

George Bush senior said, "Read my lips."

[Klaus]

I give up...

[richmond62]

Well, Klaus, why would anyone write "I've been trying to get something into a field" if they've been
trying to get someone into a room?

I suppose that's just another example of muddy thinking.
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[dunbarx]

Children...

I am not sure if CAsba really meant put the selected menuItem into a field or not. But the clear intent was to be able to extract the value of that selection and work with it.

CAsba. What are your intentions for the user's selection? The "hard" part was already solved by Klaus. I believe you are more than able to take it from there...

Craig

[Klaus]

Richmond,

the problem, which has been solved with my first reply, was not especailly to get something from a menu into a field or onto George Bush Jr/Sr lips or to get someone into a room (whatever you may mean with that? ), but that CAsba was just using a wrong syntax.

Nothing more and nothing less, is that so hard to understand?

[richmond62]

No difficulty understanding that the OP was using the wrong syntax.

Difficulty understanding what s/he was aiming at as their words seemed to signal something different from their wonky code.

Hence Bush's lips, if you get the historico-cultural reference.