Copying Menus

[James Spencer]

On Sep 6, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> I suggest making a separate sub-stack and MOVING your original menu 
> group to it, where it can be set to non-Mac style for easy editing. If 
> you call it "Menu1", then in your main stack's preOpenStack handler, 
> you can say:
> 	set the menuBar of this stack to "Menu1"
>
> Back to the menu editing stack, duplicate the group, edit the new one 
> as you see fit, call it "Menu2" or whatever you like, and use the same 
> type of script to set the menubar for stack 2.
>
> I have given up using the Mac-style menus in favor of having them in 
> separate stacks. It makes them easier to edit and I don't have any 
> problems with the objects being relocated or the stack window being 
> resized.
>

Thanks for this suggestion.  While not directly taking care of the 
problems I was having, it is nice workaround that has solved all kinds 
of issues with respect to menu creation.

James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN

jspencer78 at charter.net

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