& character messes up hierarchal pulldown menus

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Tue Feb 15 13:35:20 EST 2005


On 2/14/05 5:16 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:

> I've come across this problem and was wondering if anyone knows of a
> workaround.  On OS X if you have an & symbol in a child menu item then
> the child is elevated to a parent.  Put the following text in a
> pulldown button:
> 
> Contemporary
> [tab]Test
> [tab]R&&B
> All
> 
> This should display:
> Contemporary
> All
> 
> with Test and R&B as children of Contemporary.  Instead you see:
> Contemporary
> R&B
> All
> 
> with Test as a child of Contemporary.  This does not happen on Windows
> XP.

Trevor, I tried exactly what you proposed on both Rev 2.2 and 2.5 and got
the proper result. I'm on 10.3.4, if that makes any difference...
 

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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