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From: helvie@EBay.Sun.COM (Fred Helvie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: How do you get the number of a menu item.
Message-ID: <helvie.668814808@silverwood>
Date: 12 Mar 91 21:53:28 GMT
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csb@gdwb.oz.au (Craig Bishop) writes:

>In a application I am working on I need to reset the default
>menu item before the menu is displayed. To do that I use a

>	xv_set(Menu, MENU_DEFAULT, Number, NULL);

>The only problem is that I cannot find a simple way to find
>out the number of the menu item I wish to set as the default.

If you have the handle to the menu item itself, try this:

	xv_set(Menu, MENU_DEFAULT_ITEM, item, NULL);

To get the handle of a specific item try:

	item = xv_find(Menu, MENUITEM,
		MENU_STRING,  "default choice",
		NULL);

Menu items are not really "numbered" until they are placed into the
menu;  then the numbering begins with 1.  If you have a title item,
this will be the first item.

>-- 
>Craig Bishop			Geelong & District Water Board
>Phone: +61 52 262506		61-67 Ryrie St Geelong
>Fax:   +61 52 218236		Victoria 3220 Australia


Hope this helps.

Fred Helvie
Sun Education - Milpitas, CA - USA