Naive question about cascading menus
FlexibleLearning at aol.com
FlexibleLearning at aol.com
Sun Mar 14 01:30:52 EST 2004
>Folks, I've puzzled over the docs, but I can't understand how I can have a
>menu in a normal menu bar (not a stack menu) which can have some items that
>cascade (i.e. have submenus) and some that don't. There is a nice example
>in The Scripter's Scrapbook, where e.g. an item of the 'text' menu
>cascades into a list of fonts, while others don't cascade. It seems from
>the docs that (a) your menu has to be a stack menu and (b) its menuMode
>of 'cascade' applies to the whole menu (button), not just some items of it.
>Clearly I have missed something pretty massive. I feel dumb, but there
>it is.
You don't have to use 'cascade' style unless you are building the menu
yourself from buttons in a popup stack. The easy way to generate hierarchical menus
is to incude TAB as the first character in the button's text line
Item 1
sub1.1
sub1.2
Item 2
Item 3
sub3.1
sub3.2
sub3.3
/H
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