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From: krh@euler.jhuapl.edu (Kevin R. Holloway)
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To: oi-users@freefall.cdrom.com, perry@pure.com
Subject: Re: Getting the selection in an OI_abbr_menu
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Perry,

> I'm having a bit of trouble finding out which is the selected cell in an
> OI_abbr_menu.  None of the members which relate to the currently selected
> cell will admit to anything being selected.
> 
> For example, the following code fragment always prints "num_selected -1"
> although the menu obviously has a currently selected item:
> 
>     else if ( obj->is_derived_from( "OI_abbr_menu" ) )
>     {
>         printf("\nSetOptionsFromFields: num_selected %d\n", 
>             ((OI_menu *)obj)->num_selected() );
>     }