Menu woes....

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Thu Dec 30 14:28:41 EST 2004



Mark Smith wrote:
> Chipp, is this for real? I'm confused. To walk through what I've just done:
> 
> Create new mainstack
> 
> Use Menu Builder to create a new menu "MenuBar 1"
> the menu group appears in the top left of the stack
> 
> check "Set as menu bar on Mac OS"
> stack scrolls up to hide the menu group and
> menu appears in mac menubar
> 
> type 'Set the editMenus of this stack to true' into the msg box
> stack scrolls back down to show menu group and
> the menu bar resets ie. without my menu
> 
> Type 'hide group "MenuBar 1"' into the msg box
> menu group disappears
> 
> hereafter, setting the editMenus to false puts the menu in the menu bar,
> setting it to true takes it out again. But no scrolling. This is what 
> I'd expect, I think, but it seems like setting the editMenus to true, as 
> you suggest, prevents the menu appearing in the mac menubar. It's hiding 
> the group and setting editMenus to false that seems to get the menu in 
> the menubar without scrolling the stack.....
> 
> Have I go the wrong end of the stick?

Mark,
After you type 'hide grp Menubar1" into msg, then go to the tool palette 
and choose the browse tool (now the pointer) and you should see your 
mentubar inserted. Let me know if this doesn't work.

best,

Chipp


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