Using ShiftDown or Alt Down with onSelect

Question

I am having no success testing for ShiftDown and the various other on-select related properties.
for example both the following issue an empty alert box regardless of the status of the shift key:
myMenuItem.onSelect = function () {alert(this.ShiftDown)}
myMenuItem.onSelect = function () {alert(myMenuItem.ShiftDown)}
I want to be able to do both of:
1. When the menu command is clicked with say ShiftDown, it toggles the checked status.
2. When the menu command is clicked with say ShiftDown, it does something different from when ShiftDown is false.
Andrew
CS2 on XP

Answer 1

[email protected] wrote:
> I was going to ask about that mymenucommand.onSelect = function (menu) {}
>
That is roughly equivalent to
function _menuCmd(menu) {}
mymenucommand.onSelect = _menuCmd;
'menu' is just the name of a formal parameter/argument that is strictly local to
the function.
function myFtn(a, b, c) {
return a+b+c;
'a', 'b', 'c' are the same.
ciao,
-X