Chris,
Have you tried a call method to set the tag and see if it reads back
correctly in AppleScript?
call method "setTag:" of the_menu_item with parameter 12345
set the_tag_value to tag of the_menu_item
-- result: 12345
Does that work?
Topher
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[mailto:applescript-studio-bounces+tophu=email@hidden] On Behalf
Of Chris Tracewell
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:22 PM
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Subject: Re: Popup Button Unique ID
On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Christopher Hickman wrote:
> Hopefully someone will be able to tell us why that doesn't work,
> because the
> code you listed should do it. What kind of variable is id_vendor now?
>
> Christopher
Well I did make some headway. I still could not retrieve the tag
value through a simple reference like...
set the_tag_value to tag of the_menu_item -- (Where the_menu_item is
a reference to the menu item object)
What I did get tot work was to use the index of the menu item in the
popup button but even then it is off by one diget - so it is saying
it is for example at index 3 but that really refers to the item at
index 2. So it appears that in the code below when I set "the_index"
it is one integer less than when I retrieve the tag value using
"the_index". Thus I had to add "1" to the index var to get it to
matchup right. Here's the code.
set the_index to contents of popup button "the_vendors" of win_main
set the_index to the_index + 1
set the_id_vendor to tag of menu item the_index of menu of popup
button "the_vendors" of win_main
display dialog the_id_vendor
How this can be I have no idea, I would love it if someone would tell
me where my error is. Just to be clear, here is how I am setting the
popup button menu items
-- An XMLRPC call is done just before this to set "the_data"
repeat with the_record in the_data
set the_vendor to the_vendor of the_record
set id_vendor to id_vendor of the_record
set the_menu_item to make new menu item at the end of menu items
of menu of the_popup with properties {title:the_vendor, tag:id_vendor}
end repeat
If anyone has any help i would really appreciate it as this seems
like a really sketchy way to do this
Chris
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