Menu problem / question on Macs

David Bovill david at openpartnership.net
Mon Jun 11 10:48:08 EDT 2007


Afraid not - the actual examples I have are for one word menus. I'm stuck.

On 11/06/07, Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Could this be related to a simple thing:
> The name of any menu should be one word only?
>
> Le 11 juin 07 à 15:47, David Bovill a écrit :
>
> > I want to find out the name of the button clicked on when the user
> > selected
> > a menu... and am having a problem with using "the short name of the
> > target"
> >
> > If used the menu builder to create my menu (Say its called "Problem
> > Menu"),
> > and rather than adding a handler to the button of each menu item I
> > put the
> > following handler in the group script (click "Edit menu bar Script"):
> >
> > on mouseDown
> >>     put the short name of the target
> >>     pass mouseDown
> >> end mouseDown
> >>
> >
> > This works fine for clicking on the menu group directly as you
> > would with
> > windows / linux, - so say you click on a "Test" menu that you
> > created  -
> > Test" would be put into the message box as expected. But if you
> > make "set as
> > Menu Bar on Mac OS" -- the name you get returned is the name of the
> > group
> > with the handler in ie "Problem Menu" :(
> >
> > I've had this problem before - which I think is related to the way
> > in which
> > the message is "sent" - but this time i can see no work around for
> > what I am
> > trying to do - so is there any way to find out the real target?
>
> Best regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet.
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