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[Robert Presender]

Thank you Jacque.  Will use your method. Hope it is compatible within
my app of many substacks.  I appreciate your response.
Regards ... Bob

On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Jacque wrote:

> Robert Presender wrote:
>> Is it possible to replace a menu button in a menuBar of one substack
>> with a menu button from another substack?  Using OS 10.3.9 and Rev 
>> 2.5.1.
>>
>> For example: replace btn 3 of stack A with btn 1 of stack B.
>
> Not like that. But you can change the properties of a button to match
> another one. You can set its name, which will change the menu item in
> the menu bar. Then you can put the text of button 3 of stack A into
> button 1 of stack B, and set the script of one button to the script of
> the other.
>
> If you are going to do this in a standalone though, you'll run into
> problems with the scriptlimits if the script is more than 10 lines.
>
> You'll want to "lock menus" before you start and unlock them when you
> are done, because (at least on Macs) changing menus is not only slow,
> but also they won't update properly otherwise.
>
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> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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