Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!srcsip!gorby!mnkonar
From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Implementing a Talking Menu
Message-ID: <19742@srcsip.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 00:19:52 GMT
References: <3937@bgsuvax.UUCP> <7826@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM
Reply-To: mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
Lines: 32

In article <7826@boulder.Colorado.EDU> ewing@tramp.Colorado.EDU (EWING DAVID JAMES) writes:
>Walt, in your article you say:
>
>>"We are working on a desk accessory that will speak the menu choice on a
>>mouse event.  I would like to know how to get the English text of the menu
>>and the menu choice (whichever the cursor was over) on mouseDOWN.
>
>
>If you actually want to speek the menu item that the mouse is over as it's
>being tracked through the choices, I'd say you actually have to write an
>MDEF for this (even yuckier).


Not true.  Sorry for the following vagueness but I don't have my references
with me.  Here's how you can do it:

There is a low memory global that holds a pointer to a routine that gets called
whenever there is a menu down.  It gets called repeatedly until the mouse is
released.  (Sorry I can't remember the name or location of this global. Check
IM X-Ref)  Point this at a routine that examines another low memory global
(which I also can't remember the name of) that holds the menuID and item
currently highlighted.  Using the menu ID and item you can get the item
text by calling GetMenuItem.

I just remembered: the routine pointer is called MenuHook and I think the
menuID and Item global is called MenuChoice.  Look 'em up.  Standard
warnings about the use of lowmwmory globals apply.

____________________________________________________________________
Have a day. :^|
Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)