Mike S

Is it possible to get the selected item (number, not text) from umenu, with some kind of getvalueof() routine?

Also out of interest, is there a way of querying UI objects attributes (those viewed in the inspector?)

getting-umenu-selection-from-js

oops nevermind didn't notice you needed that in JS

autowatch = 1;

function bang()
{
    var menu = this.patcher.getnamed('menu');
    post(menu.getattr('color'));post();
}

autowatch = 1;

function bang()
{
	var menu = this.patcher.getnamed('menu');
	post(menu.getattr('color'));post();
}

Seems like you can get the items this way :

autowatch = 1;

function bang()
{
    var menu = this.patcher.getnamed('menu');
    post(menu.getattr('items'));
    post();
}

autowatch = 1;

function bang()
{
	var menu = this.patcher.getnamed('menu');
	post(menu.getattr('items'));
	post();
}

Turns out I was just being dense, getvalueof() works fine.