Re: [Pythoncard-users] Setting menuitem check mark

[hwphillips <bu...@ya...>]

kc1...@ya... wrote:
> 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,
> 
> --
> John Henry
> 
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I had a similar problem. Alex Tweedy answered as follows:

Menu items are not components, so you can't enable / disable them this way.

You do this by
    self.menuBar.setEnabled('main_menuAdd_Info', True)

assuming 'menuCommandsAutoRefresh' is the name of the menu item.
You can also do getEnabled, or getChecked/setChecked, etc.

Also, I have found that you cannot (or I cannot) change the checked 
state from a script called from the item itself. I can change it outside 
of the item script.