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Brain Fart!!! I could swear that you could set check marks on menu items in Rev, but for the life of me, I can't remember. Docs came up with nothing that I could find Can anyone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance,
-Garrett

Hi Garrett,

You can set the 'hilite' property of the menuitem: You can only refer to menitems by number, not by name or label.

Alternately, you can modify the 'text' property of the menu button: The "!c" puts a checkmark before the menuitem, whereas the "!r" puts a radiobutton/diamond before the menuitem.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Yes! that was it! Thank you!

Hi,

I see I am 2 years late to this discussion, but have a related issue.

Is there a way to change the foregroundColor of a specific word of a specific line in a pop-up menu?

For example, if btn "instructionsMenu" is a pop-up with these choices:
What is this?
Why do this?
How do I do this?

Is there a way where I can make the "What" red, the "Why" blue, and the "How" yellow with all other text remaining black?

I know I can do this with a field: I am able to reference words that are part of a menu choice: ...but when I try to set the foregroudColor or textColor, I am greeted with the following error:

Message execution error:
Error description: Object: value is not a boolean (true or false)

Does anyone know the secret here?

Thanks,
Ed

edljr wrote:Is there a way to change the foregroundColor of a specific word of a specific line in a pop-up menu?

For example, if btn "instructionsMenu" is a pop-up with these choices:
What is this?
Why do this?
How do I do this?

Is there a way where I can make the "What" red, the "Why" blue, and the "How" yellow with all other text remaining black?

Hi Ed,

I am afraid you can not change the text color of the standard pop-up buttons.
Look at an example by Oliver Kenyon in the new RevOnline (=>version 3.5) called Menu. Search for Menu and look for Oliver's stack. He shows how to 'fake' a menu that gives you more control over the appearance of the menu items.
regards
Bernd

Hi Bernd,

Thanks for the note. I was afraid I would have to fake it. I will look at Oliver's stack to see how he did it.

Best,
Ed