messed up custom menus

[Ken Ray]

Richard wrote:

> So these days I tend toward very explicit references:
> 
>    put tMyMenuContents into btn "Edit" of stack "MyMenuBar"

Klaus wrote:

> on setupedit
>    local otype
>    put word 1 to 2 of the selobjs into otype
>    if word 1 of otype is "card" and word 2 of otype is among 
> the items 
> of "field,button,image,player,scrollbar,graphic"
>    then delete word 1 of otype
>    else delete word 2 of otype
>    if otype is empty or otype is "card" or otype is "stack"
>    then disable menuItem 9 of menu "Edit"
>    else
>      enable menuItem 9 of menu "Edit"
>      if word 1 of the selobjs is "group" and the number of 
> lines in (the 
> selobjs) is 1
>      then put "Un&group/G" into menuItem 9 of menu "Edit"
>      else put "&Group/G" into menuItem 9 of menu "Edit"
>    end if
>    if the editBackground of the topStack
>    then put "Stop Editing &BG/T" into menuItem 10 of menu "Edit"
>    else put "&Backgrounds.../T" into menuItem 10 of menu 
> "Edit" 
> end setupedit

It seems like we should apply Richard's thinking to the MetaCard Menubar...
to retrieve the data from the button, change it, then reset the data of the
button (explicitly!) we'd get around any of these kinds of bugs.

Just my 2 cents,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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