Menubar Anomalies

[Sarah]

Hi Rob,

I have seen the same sort of results: your modal stack has no menubar 
of it's own, so in the IDE, it just uses the default Rev menu for 
whatever state it is in. When you run the standalone, it looks up the 
hierarchy to find a menubar to display and the one it gets to is the 
mainStack's i.e. the splash screen.

If you set the defaultMenubar, it tells the application which menu to 
display for stacks that have no menu of their own. I think you will 
still get Rev menus in the IDE, but the menus will work fine in your 
application (& possibly when suspending the Development tools).

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/

On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 04:13  am, Rob Cozens wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am testing an SDB search engine in Rev 2.02 on Mac  OS 10.2.
>
> The search is initiated by menuPick logic, including:
>
> 	modal stack "sdbDatabase Search"
>
> The main search logic in the dialog stack is:
>
> 	lock messages
> 	push card
> 	go invisible to card firstPage of stack sdbFileName
> 	repeat
> 		if searchKeys then find targetText in field "Record Key"
> 		else find targetText in field "Record"
> 		[snip]
> 	end repeat
> 	pop card
> 	unlock messages
>
> If the search criteria requests the first hit, the modal stack closes 
> and the calling stack loads the record; if multiple hits are 
> requested, the modal stack displays them in a list field, which 
> includes a mouseUp handler to close the stack and return the selected 
> record.
>
> The anomalies are:
>
> *  In the Development environment, modal stack "sdbDatabase Search" 
> changes the menubar to the Rev Dev menubar.  When the modal stack 
> closes after the search, the menubar for the database stack (which was 
> visited invisibly) is displayed.
>
> *  If Development Tools are suspended, modal stack "sdbDatabase 
> Search" changes the menubar to the Rev Restore Development Tools 
> menubar.  When the modal stack closes after the search, the correct 
> menubar is displayed.
>
> *  In the standalone,	 modal stack "sdbDatabase Search" changes the 
> menubar to the splash screen menubar.   When the modal stack closes 
> after the search, the correct menubar is displayed.
>
> I guess the next step would be to see if the behavior changes if the 
> modal stack is opened in modeless form, or if a menubar is added to > it.
>
> Right now I have other fish to fry; so if anyone can offer any 
> insights or work-arounds, your input would be appreciated.
> -- 
> Rob Cozens, CCW
> Serendipity Software Company
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>
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>
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