RE: Re: drop down box or something like it.

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> From: news [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Wolven
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 2:18 PM
> To: litestep-HzvBz7w1J3cIFlVeWT/[email protected]
> Subject: [Litestep] Re: drop down box or something like it.
> 
> The bang takes two arguments - you have to tell it the name 
> of the evar you're saving, and then what you want the evar to 
> be. So the following would save the full path to a color 
> scheme file in the evar "colorscheme":
> 
> *Popup "Select color scheme" !new !popupSchemes
>    *Popup "Select color scheme"	
> !popupDynamicACtionFolder:!savesetting 
> colorscheme:"$SchemesDir$"
> *Popup ~New
> 
> If you want just the "name" of the scheme, then you have to 
> be a little fancier, since the full path just gets tacked on 
> at the end of the popup dynamic action bang. Instead I define 
> the popup action to be !savescheme:
> 
> *Popup "Select color scheme" !new !popupSchemes
>    *Popup "Select color scheme"	
> !popupDynamicACtionFolder:!savescheme:"$SchemesDir$"
> *Popup ~New
> 
> ...and then define !savescheme to do the saving and 
> stripping, where the %1 is the full path that is passed in 
> from the popup:
> 
>   *alias !savescheme !execute [!saveSetting colorscheme 
> %1][!strippath colorscheme][!stripextn colorscheme]
> 
> Try it both ways and look at the results - you'll get the picture. =)

Aha! I get it now. I don't know why that was so hard to understand,
because it is perfectly clear now. This works beautifully! In this
paticular instance, it just shranks the config of my color, scheme, and
surface scipt configs from 45 lines to 12. And it would only be 3 if I
wasn't going for something purty.

In this case, I am only going to worry about the path, stripping the out
everything else will have to wait. It appears to be getting confused by
some of my other Var names.

Brian and Jochen, thanks for the help. I think I am going to have to
change my theme name though. It started off as a remake of my Rewind
theme, then morphed into My Default theme, then Recurve 2. But I have
used stuff from West, a lot of stuff from Brian, came up with most of it
myself, and now getting help from Jochen. It's going to need a new name.

Frankenstein. I'll just have to include the Edgar Winters song with
it...

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