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Re: Indentifying menu Items from a target object

#383
From: Thomas J. Baker
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:56
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In article <1992Jul31.170612.5317@strangeways.unh.edu>  
tjb@strangeways.unh.edu (Thomas J. Baker) writes:
> 
> I'm building a submenu on the fly that will contain the names of the  
> current uucp-connected systems:  Here is the code:
> The newMonitor is defined as - newMonitor:sender.  The menu builds  
> beautifully but when testing and choosing one of my new menu items,  
> instead of getting the id of the menuCell in newMonitor, I get the id of  
> the Matrix of menuCells.  
>
> <code deleted>
> 
> How can I set this up so that I can identify which cell sent the  
message?   
> Is this the best way to approach the problem?
> 

Following up my own post, Paul Kim (pkim@delft.berkeley.edu) gave me the  
answer I needed.  In newMonitor, I just needed to call 
[sender selectedCell] to get the id of the chosen cell.

Thanks,

tjb

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