Option buttons can have behavior?

[Mag]

I try to set a behavior for an option menu and noting seems to happen

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set the behavior of button "chooseAction" to the long id of button "ActionPopup" of card 1 of stack "TM-CodeLibrary"

Also, can't see the behavior field in the Inspector for the Option menu so I suspect that I can't set it... I need to have the same behavior for an option button in two cards and would be great to not to have to repeat the code twice...

[Klaus]

Hi Mag,

that's how LC works and the syntax is correct!

Enter this in the message box and see what you get:
put the behavior of button "chooseAction"


Best

Klaus

[Mag]

Thank you Klaus!

Done the test. It seems as if LC does not want to communicate about it, or maybe the empty result is a message too (as told by the first axiom on communication by Paul Watzlawick "One Cannot Not Communicate")

Anyway, if I write wrong the name of the button I get the (correct) error:

Message execution error:
Error description: Chunk: no such object
Hint: chooseActionxy

[Klaus]

Sorry, completely clueless!?

[Mag]

Yes, also with answer command.

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on mouseUp
   try
      answer the behavior of button "chooseAction"
   catch e
      answer "Error:" && e
   end try
end mouseUp

PS
And no errors raised.

[bn]

Hi Mag,

have a look at this stack.

It sets the behavior of 2 option menu buttons.

Kind regards

Bernd

[Mag]

Thank you Bernd, when I saw that in your stack the set behavior command works fine, I tought that the problem could be the reference in another card, so I tried to replaced "card 1" with the short name of the card and this worked!

So, this works:

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   set the behavior of button "chooseAction" to the long id of button "ActionPopup" of card "Codes" of stack "TM-CodeLibrary" -- works

...and this don't wrk:

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set the behavior of button "chooseAction" to the long id of button "ActionPopup" of card 1 of stack "TM-CodeLibrary" -- don't work

[Klaus]

Ah, good to know, thank you!

[Mag]

Thanks to your contribute to get the solution.