[Pythoncard-users] Setting menuitem check mark

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Hi list,

I am having trouble making the menuitem check mark to
behave properly.

In my resource file, both the checkable and checkd
options for a particular menuitem has been set to 1. 
Upon startup, I want to change the check mark base on
some other settings and I have code in the
on_initialize method to do that.  However, no matter
what I do, the check mark still comes out checked.  

I am assuming that I am not doing this properly.   The
code I am using in the on_initialize method:

found=False
for me in self.menuBar.menus:
   if me.getLabel()=="MyMenuLabel":
      for item in me.items:
         if item.getLabel()=="MyMenuItem":
            item.checked = 0 (let say)
            found=True
            break
   if found:
      break

The above code *doesn't* work.  The check mark value
is affected but the display is not.

What's the proper way to do this?

Thanks,

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John Henry