Dynamic menubar menus in OSX

[Howard Bornstein]

Hmm. This must be something so obvious I'm completely missing it. I'm 
trying to create a dynamic menu in the menubar. Something that gets set 
when the user clicks the menu. So for a test, I create a stack and use 
the Menu Builder to build a standard menu. I add a new menu item called 
Ticks. In the script of the button Ticks, I put:

On mousedown
   put the ticks into me
end Mousedown

If the editmenus property of the stack is true, the menus show up on 
the stack under OSX. If I click the Ticks menu, it puts a new ticks 
value as the menu item each time I click it (as expected). However, 
when I set the editmenus property to false, so that it shows up in the 
regular Mac menubar, the Ticks menu only shows the last value placed 
there (when editmenus was true). IOW, once the menu appears in the 
regular Mac menubar, it no longer seems to respond to the mousedown 
handler. A MenuPick handler in the button works fine, but not a 
mousedown or mouseup handler.  Why?


Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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