Pop-up menu Displays text as a pop-up menu. Selections can be made manually, or set incoming numbers. Outputs both selection number and selection text. Cycling '74 Max ubumenu U/I Messages in TEXT_HERE Item Number Chosen TEXT_HERE Menu Item Text Evaluated as a Message TEXT_HERE Dumpout TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Output current selection Sends out the currently displayed menu item. Select a menu item programmatically The number specifies a menu item to be sent out, and causes umenu to display that item. The items are numbered starting at 0. A menu item can also be chosen from a umenu with the mouse, as with any pop-up menu. Select a menu item programmatically Converted to int. Load the menu from a folder When a file folder is dragged from the Max File Browser to a umenu object, the folder's contents will be loaded into as menu choices.

When a file folder is dragged from the Max File Browser to a blank space in an unlocked patcher window, a umenu object containing the folder's contents loaded will be created. Add a menu item The word append, followed by any message, appends that message as the new last item in the menu. Set a menu item check mark The word checkitem, followed by an item number and 1 or 0, places (1) or removes (0) a check mark next to the item number. Remove menu items Removes all items from the umenu. Remove select menu items The word delete, followed by one or more numbers that correspond to items in the list, deletes the item or items from the umenu. Remove all menu check marks The word clearchecks removes check marks for all items. Report the number of menu items Sends the number of items in the umenu out the right outlet, preceded by the word count. Enable or disable menu items The word enableitem, followed by a number that specifies a menu item and a 1 or 0, enables or disables the specified item number. Disabled menu items cannot be selected, but their text and item number are sent from the rightmost outlet if the mouse is released while above them, prefixed by the symbols disabled_eval and disabled_item, respectively. Report toggle state Reports the current value of the umenu object's toggle state (1 or 0, for on or off), from the right outlet, preceded by the word toggle. Insert a menu item The word insert, followed by a number and a message, inserts the message at the address specified by the number, incrementing all equal or greater addresses by 1 if necessary. Set menu appearance and behavior Legacy message. Please use the menumode attribute. The word mode, followed by a number in the range 1-4, sets the appearance and behavior of the umenu object. The normal pop-up menu style is 1 (the default). Scrolling mode (2) lets you scroll through the individual menu items by dragging the mouse up or down, displaying one item at a time. Label mode (3) shows the text of the selected menu item with no border around it, and does not respond to the mouse. Toggle mode (4) sets a button style. Clicking on the object in mode 3 causes it to alternate between an active and inactive state. When changing from inactive to active, the object sends the message toggle 1 from its rightmost outlet, and changes to the color set using the togcolor attribute. When changing from active to inactive, the object sends the message toggle 0 from its rightmost outlet, and changes to the color set using the bgcolor attribute. Whether activating or deactivating, the object also sends its current message from the middle outlet and its current item number from the left outlet. Select a menu item Clicking with the mouse lets you select a menu item to be sent out, and causes umenu to display that item. Select the next menu item Selects the next menu item and causes the umenu object to display that item. This message will ignore disabled or separator menu items. Populate the menu with file names If the umenu object has a valid folder path as its prefix, the populate message will cause the menu to re-populate its items list, based on the current contents of the specified path (and filtered by the types list). After population is complete, the number of items added to the umenu object will be output from the right outlet, preceded by the word populate. Select the previous menu item Selects the previous menu item and causes the umenu object to display that item. This message will ignore disabled or separator menu items. Select a menu item with no output The word set, followed by a number or symbol, specifies a menu item to be displayed by umenu, but does not send it out the outlet. If the set argument is a symbol, set searches for a menu item which begins with the symbol. Set check mark character (Macintosh only) The word setcheck, followed by a number that specifies the decimal representation of a UTF-8 character (e.g. 8226 for a bullet or 62 for a greater than symbol), sets the character used to be the check mark. The word setcheck with no argument specifies the default square root checkbox. Set menu item text The word setitem, followed by an item number and any message, sets the specified menu item to that message. Select menu item with no output The word setsymbol, followed by a message, specifies a menu item to be displayed by name without triggering any output. Set menu colors The word setrgb, followed by six numbers between 0 and 255 that specify RGB values, uses the first three numbers to set the foreground (text) color and the second three numbers to set the background (fill) color. Set toggle state, cause output The word settoggle, followed by a one or zero, sets the umenu object to the specified state if it is in toggle mode and performs output as if the object were clicked on (the symbol toggle, followed by a zero or one, indicating the toggle state). Without an argument, the message simply toggles the object's state and triggers output. Show checked menu item This message operates as follows. If the currently displayed item is checked, do nothing. Otherwise, starting at the first item in the menu, find one that is checked and set the menu to display that item. If there isn't one, do nothing. Select a menu item by name Identical to the set message with a symbol argument, except that the found item number is sent out (and the text of the item is sent out the right outlet, if the Evaluate Item Text feature is enabled). Set toggle state, cause output The word toggle, followed by a one or zero, sets the umenu object to the specified state if it is in toggle mode and performs output as if the object were clicked on (the symbol toggle, followed by a zero or one, indicating the toggle state). Without an argument, the message simply toggles the object's state and triggers output. Text alignment mode Sets the text alignment mode. Alignment modes are:
0 left (the default)
1 center (1)
2 right alignment (2) Allow Drag & Drop TEXT_HERE Apply Box Colors to Menu TEXT_HERE Draw Arrow TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Populate from folder contents Toggles the automatic population of an umenu object with folder contents (default = 0). The automatic population will occur when it receives a valid folder path as the argument to a prefix message, or at patcher load, if a valid prefix is stored with the object. See the prefix, populate, and types message descriptions for more information. Background color Sets the background color of the umenu object object in RGBA format. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Background Color TEXT_HERE Collection Name TEXT_HERE Toggle Hilite Color Sets the toggle highlight color in RGBA format. Folder recursion depth Sets the folder recursion depth used by the umenu object when populating from a valid file path. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Toggle Off Color Sets the toggle off color in RGBA format. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Edit menu items The items attribute, which is only accessible using the umenu object's Inspector, lets you enter the items which you want to appear on the menu by typing into a dialog box. Menu items are separated by by commas (e.g., red, orange, yellow, green). Label click mode Toggles Label Click mode on or off. In this mode, when the object is in Label mode, you can click in the object's rectangle and the current value of the menu is sent out the left outlet. In addition, the text of the current item is shown underlined. Appearance/behavior mode Sets the appearance and behavior of the umenu object. The modes are:

0: Normal mode - the normal pop-up menu (default).
1: Scrolling mode - lets you scroll through the individual menu items by dragging the mouse up or down, displaying one item at a time.
2: Label mode - shows the text of the selected menu item with no border around it, and does not respond to the mouse.
3: Toggle mode - Clicking on the object in mode 3 causes it to alternate between an active and inactive state. When changing from inactive to active, the object sends the message toggle 1 from its rightmost outlet, and changes to the color set using the togcolor attribute. When changing from active to inactive, the object sends the message toggle 0 from its rightmost outlet, and changes to the color set using the bgcolor attribute. Whether activating or deactivating, the object also sends its current message from the middle outlet and its current item number from the left outlet.
Control-clicking allows you to change the current state of a umenu object in toggle mode. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Enable parameter mode handling Enables use of this object with Max for Live Parameters and allows for setting initial parameter values in the Max environment. Pattr state mode Sets the method used by the umenu object object to report its internal state to the pattr object. When the argument is 0 (default), the umenu object reports its internal state by number (e.g. item 3 of the list of items). When the argument is 1, the umenu object reports its internal state by symbol (e.g. item 'carrots' of the list of items). Output prefix Sets a menu-wide prefix, which can be concatenated or prepended to all menu item text before output. If the prefix is a valid folder path, the populate and types messages can be used to automatically fill the umenu object with a list of files in the folder. See the entries for those messages for more information. Sending a prefix message without any argument clears the currently stored prefix. Prefix mode Sets the output behavior of the prefix mode. The modes are:

0: concatenate mode; the prefix is added to the front of the outgoing message without a space.
1: prepend mode; the prefix is added to the front of the outgoing message list as a discrete symbol.
2: ignore mode; the prefix is not used for output. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Show files beginning with a dot (.) Toggles the display of files whose names begin with a dot (.). The default is off. Style Sets the style to be applied to the object. Styles can be set using the Format palette. Text color Sets the text color of the umenu object object in RGBA format. The textcolor attribute is mapped to the textcolor_inverse style color. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Text truncation mode Toggles the location of the truncation of text in the umenu object when the text is too long. The default is 1 (truncate the end of the text on the right-hand side). A value of 2 will cause the text to truncate in the middle in the same manner as the textbutton object. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE File types list Sets a file type filter for use by the populate message. Up to 64 file types may be entered as a list. By default, no file types are filtered. For a list of valid four-letter filetype codes, see the Filetypes Recognized in Max Guide. Text underline flag Toggles the underlining of text in the umenu object. The default is 0 (no underlining). Out left outlet: The number of the selected menu item is sent out. Menu items are numbered beginning with 0. Out middle outlet: The text of the selected menu item is sent out as a message.

Out right outlet: The count, gettoggle, and populate, messages will cause status messages to be sent out the right outlet.