Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cat.cmu.edu!ns From: ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Faking menus in Hypercard + PopUpMenu XCMD wanted Message-ID: <2088@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 28 Jun 88 02:24:47 GMT References: <7089@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 17 Much easier, and not involving XCMDs, is to write a a doMenu handler that provids usual menu behavior when a "help" checkbox button is clear and provides help "answer" dialogs when checked. Such as... on doMenu choice if choice is "Button Info... then if the hilite of bg button "help" then answer "Opens info box for selected button." with "OK" else pass doMenu choice end if else if ... ...and so forth. -- Nicholas Spies ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa Center for Design of Educational Computing Carnegie Mellon University