dagfooyo

I'm trying to create a function that populates a umenu from an array, but for some reason when I try to tell the umenu to add a value it doesn't listen. Going by the documentation I assumed it was a matter of sending it a message to "append x" but that doesn't work for me. Neither does "insert 1 blah" or such. I've simplified my code below, can you point out what I've done wrong / the correct way to go about this? Thanks so much!

var myumenu = this.patcher.newdefault(100,100, "umenu");

I'm trying to create a function that populates a umenu from an array, but for some reason when I try to tell the umenu to add a value it doesn't listen.  Going by the documentation I assumed it was a matter of sending it a message to "append x" but that doesn't work for me.  Neither does "insert 1 blah" or such.  I've simplified my code below, can you point out what I've done wrong / the correct way to go about this?  Thanks so much!

var myumenu = this.patcher.newdefault(100,100, "umenu");
myumenu.message("append foo");
myumenu.message("append bar");


trying-to-populate-a-umenu-should-be-simple-what-am-i-doing-wrong

never mind, I figured it out. Apparently you have to break it up with commas like so

never mind, I figured it out.  Apparently you have to break it up with commas like so

 is the first argument of the message. If you write 

 which is just one symbol, so umenu will complain that it doesn't understand the message "append foo".

yes, because append is the name of the message and foo is the first argument of the message. If you write append foo it means the symbol "append foo" which is just one symbol, so umenu will complain that it doesn't understand the message "append foo".


trying to populate a umenu - should be simple, what am I doing wrong?