Re: Newbie question: Pop-up menus

Matt,

Thanks. At least I know it's not just me. I'd rather use a drop-down
list, but I switched to a pop-up so as to be able to use the new value
list trick of hiding the primary field and displaying only the
secondary. Seems you can't have everything.

Paul M.

In article <5nErg.396$HJ3.234@trndny03>, Matt Wills<Im@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Same thing happens in Panther.

A popup menu will not open unless you click the item. A drop down list,
on the other hand, will open when you tab in.
No telling why they did it that way, except that in calling it a menu,
maybe they wanted it to behave like an application menu?
Matt

Paul <this@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Having just upgraded to FM8 I'm really pleased to find that it is now
possible to add just about any control object to the tab order of a
layout. The fly in the ointment seems to be pop-up menus.

When I tab into any field formatted as a pop-up menu, there is no sign
that that field has the focus, and the menu doesn't display. The field
is obviously selected at some level - if I tab again, focus moves to the
next field - but the only way to open the menu is with the mouse. Am I
setting something up wrong, is it a quirk of my system (Mac OS X
v10.4.7, PowerPC G4, FM Pro 8.0v3), or is there really no way to control
pop-ups from the keyboard?

Enlightenment much appreciated.

Paul M.
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