menu paradigm of Rev/MC and other goofiness

[Ken Norris]

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> From: livfoss at blueyonder.co.uk
> Subject: RE: menu paradigm of Rev/MC and other goofiness
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:07:59 -0000

> Ah! That's illuminating! I'd read about stack menus in the docs, and in fact
> never wanted to use one, but I always vaguely thought that indeed it was an
> alternative way of creating a menubar menu (as I come from a Mac background)
> and wondered why anyone would do it. Now I know that a stack menu can't be a
> menubar menu, and it would be 'faking it' if it was so used in Windows, so I'm
> completely foxed as to what sort of menu it can be.
> Obviously there is some
> other kind of menu that I never use. Pardon my complete dumbness on this one,
> but can anyone give me an example of when and why you would use a stack menu?
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Stack menus are stacks with menu behavior. Think of them as popup stacks.
Usually you would show them with a button, but you don't have to (do it from
a mouseUp in a group or stack script). You could "place" them in the menubar
if you want to.

You would use them when you would want to do something you can't do with
ordinary popup/pulldown menus.

For example, instead of popping up a list of textual menu choices, you want
to pop up a menu of images (photos, drawings, etc.).

See the docs. Follow this route:

Help menu > Revolution Documentation (Development Guide) > Menus (under
Development Guide) > About > menus and the menubar > Stack Menus
(Revoulution Encyclopedia...last section near the bottom).

HTH,
Ken N.