Menu manager/switch problem

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Norris wrote:

> **********
>> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:44:43 -0800
>> Subject: Re: Multiple background group hierarchy (was Goofy button
>> behavior)
>> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> 
>> I think the "case" approach may give you a useful mix of some common
>> functionality and some shared functionality, with the extra benefit of
>> keeping your code tidily in one place. :)
>> 
>>> ----------
>>>> I'm picturing something like this, in the stack script:
>>>> 
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>> switch the short name of the owner of the target -- the group name
>>>> case "GroupName1"
>>>> DoSomething
>>>> break
>>>> case "GroupName2"
>>>> DoSomethingElse
>>>> break
>>>> end switch   
>>>> end mouseUp
> ----------
> I went back to the "Hello World" tutorial to check on the "switch" command
> set in the Help menu, which looks like this (when you finish altering it):
> 
> on menuPick pWhich
> switch pWhich
> case "Help"
> answer "You really need help with this?"
> break
> case "About"
> answer "Hello World, written by me!"
> break
> end switch
> end menuPick
> 
> 
> What I discovered is that the Menu manager failed to set up the Help menu
> with the switch commands properly. I went through it twice to be sure and
> the Help menu should have 2 items, i.e., "Help" and "About"...but it
> doesn't.
> 
> Instead, the Help menu has 3 items: "About Baloon Help...", "Show Baloons",
> and "Help"
> 
> The "About Baloon Help..." and "Show Baloons" are the normal Mac items in
> that menu, which also show in the Rev IDE menu. The plain "About" item which
> the Menu Manager says is supposed to be there is NOT THERE...
> 
> And so, the only menu item which works according to the script (see above)
> written through the Menu Manager is the "Help" item, which throws the proper
> answer dialog. But the "About" item is missing altogether.
> 
> What's going on? Has this been discussed before? (not sure what to search on
> in the archives for it).

If you're on a Mac, the About should be appearing as the first item under
the Apple menu.  If it's not there I'll see that it's fixed in the next
revision.

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