Menu madness
Dave Cragg
dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Wed Aug 16 19:10:39 EDT 2006
On 16 Aug 2006, at 23:47, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 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?
Setting it to invisible works. (I don't think it used to.) Thanks for
the tip.
Moving it above the top doesn't work.
Cheers
Dave
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