Display a Value list in a custom menu?

November 3, 200520 yr

Hi, anyway to display a value list in a custom menu, where there selection runs a script based on the selection?

Thanks,

Andrew

November 3, 200520 yr

If you're talking about Filemaker's custom menu in v8 Advanced, no you can't. I don't believe Secure FM will either. Dacons Menu Control supposedly does, but I haven't tried it. If you were on a Win platform, you could use a popup menu that was script driven.

Steve

November 4, 200520 yr

There are some very limited things that you can do in FMP8A. For example define a menu set so that the successive menu items are specified as the values in a value list, item n gets the label

MiddleValues (ValueListItems ( Get(FileName); "Value List" ) ; n ; 1 )

Of course there is the immediate limitation that you must decide how many to include. What do you do when a menu item is selected. You can set off a script and you can use this value as a parameter.

Another limitation is "refreshing" once the menu is displayed it doesn't change when the Value List changes again restricting its usefulness.