How do I populate a popup button?

Hard to tell for sure, but a 'menu' is a listed element of a 'pop up button'. As an element there may be more than one - of course, in your case you might have only one, but that's not a forced limit.

Therefore, within AppleScript, you need to be more definitive as to which menu you want to target, e.g.

tell menu 1 of pop up button 1

By identifying the specific menu associated with the popup you should have more success.

It looks like you are using AppleScript Studio terminology, which was deprecated in Snow Leopard. Using the current AppleScriptObjC framework, the user interface items are referenced via outlet properties, for example:

property myPopUp : missing value

From the Interface Editor, this property is connected to your popup button, which allows you to use it with various methods in the NSPopupButton class and its parents, such as addItemsWithTitles. Once everything is defined and connected, you would use something like:

set catList to {"next item", "another item", "Items added"}

myPopUp's addItemsWithTitles_(catList)

A Cocoa-AppleScript does not have an implied run handler, so your statements need to be placed inside a handler that gets called at some time. In your example project, placing the popup statements in the applicationWillFinishLaunching_ handler should do the trick.

The word "menu" is an AppleScript class name. There are a few ASObjC methods that have the same name as an AppleScript keyword, so to use those you need to place the word in pipes, for example:

thePopUp's |menu|'s addItem_(theSep)

Hi red_menace,

I'm following on this example but I've a doubt; how I could assign, the selected item, to variable.

Example.

property myPopUp : missing value --referencing outlets to appdelegate.applescript
property myExit : "" -- input to show the selected item on myPopUp, binding Value (AppDelegate.myExit)
..........

  on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification)
  -- Insert code here to initialize your application before any files are opened
        
        set catList to {"angora", "romano", "egipcio"}
        elPopUp's addItemsWithTitles_(catList)
    
        set exit to (myPopUp's selectedItem_(catList)) -- It's doesn't work,
                              -- [NSPopUpButton selectedItem:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1044304a0 (error -10000)
        setMyExit_(exit as string)

  end applicationWillFinishLaunching_

My first steps on cocoa-applescript. I've a lot of scripts on applescripts :-(

Anyone can help me, thanks a lot!!

I've found in your site menace-enterprises

, a very useful convert.

But it doesn't works :-(

set exit to property_NSMenuItem_selectedItem() as string -- Convert give me this line, but I don't know how to use it
       
setLaSalida_(exit)
   

Thanks again

Here I'm again, I'm sorry.

property myPopUp : missing value --referencing outlets to appdelegate.applescript  
property myExit : "" -- input to show the selected item on myPopUp, binding Value (AppDelegate.myExit)  
..........  
  
  on applicationWillFinishLaunching_(aNotification)  
  -- Insert code here to initialize your application before any files are opened  
          
        set catList to {"angora", "romano", "egipcio"}  
        elPopUp's addItemsWithTitles_(catList)  
     
        set exit to myPopUp's titleOfSelectedItem() as text  
        setMyExit_(exit) 
  
  end applicationWillFinishLaunching_ 

This script works fine, but I don't get the dinamic refresh of the input, changing the selection in the popup 😟

Only show the first item

It's works fine, thanks to a menu and combo boxes, menace site 😉

I feel the annoyance