Menu madness

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Aug 16 18:47:49 EDT 2006


Dave Cragg wrote:

> On Macs, a menubar is pretty much a requirement. But on Windows, and  
> Linux too I guess, they are not always needed, and many apps don't  
> have one. (I'm looking at Norton Anti-Virus right now.) And in the  
> multi-media, internet world, they can seem out of place. (All that  
> File, Edit stuff is so 80's. :-))
> 
> In these situations, we need a menubar for the Mac but not on other  
> platforms. And so we want the window to remain the same size on both  
> platforms. But it's not that obvious how to achieve this. The only  
> way I've found that works is to "remove" the menubar group from the  
> card. The menubar will still display on a Mac, but no resizing takes  
> palce, and no menubar appears on Windows. But it's not that obvious.  
> A "Menubar on Mac only" option would be useful, I think.

Does setting the group to invisible or moving it vertically above the 
top of the card do what you need?

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