Macros in Footer Menu?

[HankFay]

Macros in the footer work great.

They don't seem to do anything in menus, however. Should they?

What happens instead is that starting the custommenuoptions (footer) menu with anything other than the pipe ( | ) turns the footer menu into an options menu at the left of the footer; which is neat, but being able to have a dynamic menu would be neat also. <s> (I see this has changed from RC9 and before: lacking the pipe used to mean that the menu labels started from the left. I suspect this is a change to make things work with mobile, eh?)

thanks,

Hank

[barrymavin]

Hi Hank,

The menus can be prefixed with | < or > for center, left and right alignment.

[HankFay]

Hi Hank,

The menus can be prefixed with | < or > for center, left and right alignment.

Ah, had used <center>, didn't realize about just using < and >.

The question was about using macros in the footer menu, to make them dynamic. I gather that's a "no"?

thanks,

Hank

[yvonne.milne]

Hi Hank,

The & character is used for hot key shortcuts (http://www.lianja.com/community/show...highlight=menu), but you can use {} in the menus.

Regards,

Yvonne

[HankFay]

Hi Hank,

The & character is used for hot key shortcuts (http://www.lianja.com/community/show...highlight=menu), but you can use {} in the menus.

Regards,

Yvonne

Hi Yvonne,

You and Barry have quite the magic touch <s>: it doesn't work for me, I tell you it doesn't, you tell me it does, and then it works for me.

What worked for me today was the following .footermenu, in section2 of page customers in Lianjademo (with the footer caption removed): |&{iif(orders.freight > 100.00, "Reject", "Accept")}

In this case, it sort of works, in the sense that when I set the value in the attributes or from the console, it reflects the current value, but when I change the record nothing happens.

I've tried various things: setting a var to the .footermenu value and then setting .footermenu to the var does refresh the macro. But I can't find a way to make it fire: moving the record pointer in the section2 grid does not fire either the Change or Datachanged delegates, for example (although it seems to me one of them should fire).

So, thanks for making me try again. Any clues on how to make it fire would be appreciated.

thanks,

Hank

[barrymavin]

Hi Hank,

Look in the App Inspector and see what delegates are being fired.

[yvonne.milne]

Hi Hank,

Try the section.click() - this works for me in lianjademo:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Event delegate for 'click' event
proc Customers_section2_click()
	Lianja.get("customers.section2").footermenu = '|&{iif(orders.freight > 100.00, "Reject", "Accept")}'
endproc

Regards,

Yvonne