Problem with Menubar handling

[David Burgun]

*****Opps! Many appoligies, I sent out the last mail without changing 
the subject!*****

Hi,

I have a problem with menu bars:

If I use the following script in the Stack Script with the 
preOpenStack message, I get problems, the memu bar does not seem to 
get instansiated correct. If I use it in the Mouse Up Handler of a 
button on the Stack, all works fine.


---------------------------------------------------------------
--
--  preOpenStack Handler
--
---------------------------------------------------------------

on mouseUp
   local myStackFileName
   local myStackShortName
   local myMainMenuPathName
   local myStatus
     put the filename of this Stack into myStackFileName
   put the short name of this Stack into myStackShortName
   put replaceText(myStackFileName,myStackShortName,"MainMenu") into 
myMainMenuPathName

   start using stack myMainMenuPathName

--
--  Ok to use Functions in "MainMenu" now
--

   start using stack myStackFileName
   set the menubar of this stack to "GroupRectangleMenu"
     set the destroyStack of this stack to true
   set the cpSaveStackFlag of this stack to false
     if the environment is not "development" then
     set the location of this stack to the screenLoc
   end if
   end mouseUp

Here's how my App works:

I have a Stack called MainMenu.rev, this stack contains the default 
Menu Bar for my app and also in the Stack Script, functions that are 
used in other stacks of the same app.

Normally when being used as an App (or built as a standalone) the 
sequence of events is as follows:

AppFolder/SpashScreenStack (or the Standalone) - this stack display a 
splash screen and goes to Stack AppFolder/RunTime/MainMenu.rev

AppFolder/StackMainMenu.rev Setups up the Default Menu bar and then 
goes to other stacks depending on which item is selected.

The problem is that under the IDE I want to be able to open one of 
the other stacks, however since this stack may use funtions defined 
in MainMenu.rev I want to make sure it's loaded and the Stack Script 
is available for use.

I therefore came up with the following script.

I think that there are two problems, one in my code and one that may 
be due to my code but causes the IDE to become unstable as a result. 
I am trying to find the problem in my code (which seems to be message 
I am using (preOpenStack), since it works when placed in a button. 
The second problem seems to be related to when I use either put 
"xxxx" or answer "xxxx" or use the debugger to try to find the 
problem. If I do this then it looks like the menu bar gets changed 
and code that accesses the Menubar object doesn't work (I get an 
object not found error when trying to enable or disable items in the 
menubar.

If anyone could give me some advice here, that would be really 
helpful. Knowing the correct message to put the script onto would be 
of help!!!

One specific questions I have is, does the line:

   start using stack myMainMenuPathName

cause the preOpenStack, openStack etc. messages to be executed in the 
Stack myMainMenuPathName???

Thanks a lot and All the Best
Dave
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