I do something like (found in this thread http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=31815, thanks Luigi!)

int screen_x, screen_y;
t_pt screen; int itemid;

jmouse_getposition_global(&screen_x, &screen_y);
screen.x = (double)screen_x;
screen.y = (double)screen_y;
itemid = jpopupmenu_popup(mymenu, screen, 2);
post(“result : %d”, itemid);

so apparently the element with ID 2 of mymenu, when I pop it up, should be checked – but it’s not! Nothing is checked.
Mymenu is correctly created and filled with

mymenu = jpopupmenu_create();
jpopupmenu_additem(mymenu, 1, “A”, NULL, 0, 0, NULL);
jpopupmenu_additem(mymenu, 2, “B”, NULL, 0, 0, NULL);
jpopupmenu_additem(mymenu, 3, “C”, NULL, 0, 0, NULL);
jpopupmenu_additem(mymenu, 4, “D”, NULL, 0, 0, NULL);
…
and then linked with a font via jpopupmenu_setfont.

Do I miss something?

By the way: when I have submenus linked with the same font, i have the feeling that the top level font is way smaller than the second level one…

Thanks,
Daniele

you make a bad assumption : itemid = jpopupmenu_popup (mymenu, screen, 2); means that itemid should be set with value 2 if NO item is selected by user in the popup. The check stuff is the boolean value in the jpopupmenu_additem function ; for instance :

jpopupmenu_additem (sequencePopup, 1,	"toto", NULL, (x->toto == JOJO), 0, NULL);

HTH

thanks for answering. Actually it happens often that the checked value has to be dynamical.
Imagine this situation: one has 5 staves, and can click on each of them to change its clef (the popup menu is a list of clefs). The menu has to be just one, but I have to set different “checked” values when clicking depending on which staff has been clicked. I cannot simply define it once for all in jpopup_additem!

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thanks
Daniele

something like that :

#define CLEF_A 1
#define CLEF_B 2
#define CLEF_C 3

...

typedef struct _myObject {
long clef;
} t_myObject;

...

void myObject_new ( )
{
	x->clef = CLEF_A;
}

...

jpopupmenu_additem (clefPopup, 1,	"clef A", NULL, (x->clef == CLEF_A), 0, NULL);
jpopupmenu_additem (clefPopup, 2,	"clef B", NULL, (x->clef == CLEF_B), 0, NULL);
jpopupmenu_additem (clefPopup, 3,	"clef C", NULL, (x->clef == CLEF_C), 0, NULL);

returnedPopupValue = jpopupmenu_popup (clefPopup, locate, 0);

switch (returnedPopupValue) {
case 0	:	break;
case 1	:	x->clef = CLEF_A; break;
case 2	:	x->clef = CLEF_B; break;
case 3	:	x->clef = CLEF_C; break;
}

...

HTH.

With your code, at the beginning “clef A” is ticked. Suppose that at a given moment one changes the clef into CLEF_B. Now x->clef has become CLEF_B, but there’s no way to tell the menu that now the first element should not be ticked any more, and it is the second one which has to be ticked.
I have the feeling that once you add an item, either it is ticked, or it is not, and it’ll be like that forever.

Except (and this is the solution I’m using now) if you destroy and recreate menus at each right click!
I just hoped to have a way to “switch” the tick in the menus without having to destroy/create them anew (which works perfectly, but I suppose it is more cpu-consuming?)

if you do not recreate the popup it is a problem, but why not doing it ?

IMHO it’s a good way, because :

A/ this is a low priority process ; CPU cost of this operation is not significant ;
B/ I typed “jpopupmenu_create” on scroogle and i found jamoma’s sources where it is done like that, so if they do that, we can do that ;-)

HTH.

You’re probably right! :-)
destroying/Recreating menus is exactly what I’m doing now, so I’m also quite happy that I don’t have to change the structure of my code! :)

There’s still this issue with the fonts: the same font associated to menus and submenus leads to different sizes. Does it happen to you as well? Is it normal?

Thanks again.
d

i don’t have any bad behaviour with fonts ;
i use attributes to set them ; something like that :

#define DEFAULT_POPUP_FONTNAME "Arial"
#define DEFAULT_POPUP_FONTSIZE "14."
#define DEFAULT_POPUP_FONTFACE "0"

#define FONTSIZE_LIST	"8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 20 24 30 36 48 64 72"
#define FONTSTYLE_LIST	"regular bold italic "bold italic""

...

CLASS_STICKY_ATTR (c, "category", 0, "Font");

CLASS_ATTR_SYM (c, "popupfontname", 0, t_tralala, popupFontName);
CLASS_ATTR_DEFAULTNAME_SAVE (c, "popupfontname", 0, DEFAULT_POPUP_FONTNAME);
CLASS_ATTR_STYLE_LABEL (c, "popupfontname", 0, "font", "Popup Font Name");
CLASS_ATTR_DOUBLE (c, "popupfontsize", 0, t_tralala, popupFontSize);
CLASS_ATTR_DEFAULTNAME_SAVE (c, "popupfontsize", 0, DEFAULT_POPUP_FONTSIZE);
CLASS_ATTR_ENUM (c, "popupfontsize", 0, FONTSIZE_LIST);
CLASS_ATTR_LABEL (c, "popupfontsize", 0, "Popup Font Size");
CLASS_ATTR_LONG (c, "popupfontface", 0, t_tralala, popupFontFace);
CLASS_ATTR_DEFAULTNAME_SAVE (c, "popupfontface", 0, DEFAULT_POPUP_FONTFACE);
CLASS_ATTR_ENUMINDEX (c, "popupfontface", 0, FONTSTYLE_LIST);
CLASS_ATTR_LABEL (c, "popupfontface", 0, "Popup Font Style");

CLASS_STICKY_ATTR_CLEAR (c, "category");

...

font = jfont_create (x->popupFontName->s_name, (x->popupFontFace & (1< <1)),
		(x->popupFontFace & (1< <0)), x->popupFontSize);

....

jpopupmenu_setfont (popup, font);
jpopupmenu_setfont (snapPopup, font);
jpopupmenu_setfont (sequencePopup, font);

I havn’t tried to set different font for menu and submenus … but everything seems ok on screen, maybe you should post your code if problem still happens.

HTH