Date:         Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:22:00 -0400
Reply-To:     Randy Herbison <RandyHerbison@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Randy Herbison <RandyHerbison@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cascading popmenu or right-click button simulation
Comments: To: tmuir@rdg.boehringer-ingelheim.com
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Tim,

As far as I know, there is no way to make a pmenu pull-down by clicking
on a button.

There are a couple of frame attributes that, depending on the control
and where you click on it, will cause the pmenu to display when a popup
menu would ordinarily display.  They might decrease the portion of the
frame sensitive to popmenu actions and increase the portion where a
right-click would display a pmenu.  Checkout the frame attributes
popMenuProcessing and popMenuSupport (although I suspect you will not
find this a satisfactory solution).

You can make a pmenu respond to keys.  If you use the MENUB application
to build a pmenu, place an ampersand before the character in the item
text. If using PROC PMENU, specify a mnemonic character for the item.

Here is an example of how to create the effect (almost) of a cascading
popmenu:

dcl list primaryMenu={'Red','Green...','Blue'};
dcl list subMenu={'Light','Dark'};
dcl num index index2;

index=popmenu(primaryMenu);

select (index);
  when (1) put 'Red';
  when (2)
    do;
      index2=popmenu(subMenu);
      if index2=1 then put 'Light Green' ;
      else if index2=2 then put 'Dark Green';
    end;
  when (3) put 'Blue';
  otherwise;
end;

rc=dellist(primaryMenu);
rc=dellist(subMenu);


RandyHerbison@westat.com

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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:26 PM
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Subject: Cascading popmenu or right-click button simulation


Hello SAS-Lers,

I'm in a quandary.  Having a pmenu at the top of the AF is ok, but then
again, right-clicking and having the menu display is pretty nice, but
you have to right-click in specific locations.  Is there a way to have
action behind a button that will trigger the pmenu to display?  The
other thing I had considered, but have found nothing was to make
cascading popmenus.  Has anyone tried the latter or know how to do the
former?

Thanks in advance,

Tim

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