Neat Trick!

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Hi Dave,

you can always do this too:

on mousedown
  put "About" && the short name of this stack into last line of me
  pass mousedown
end mousedown

This way you always have the right about menu ;)

Cheers
---------------------=---------------------
Xavier Bury

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 09/03/2007 16:36:04:

> Hi All,
> 
> I was trying to make a Generic Menubar Stack, but had the old problem 
> that the text changes depending on the name of the application, e.g. 
> "About thisApp",  "About thatApp", ""About theOtherApp". Anyway, I 
> tried the following code and it worked! I hadn't realized before that 
> a parameter to a "case" clause can be a variable, which really makes 
> it a lot more powerful.
> 
> Just thought I'd share!
> 
> All the Best
> Dave
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> --  menuPick
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> on menuPick theItemSelected
>    local myMenuItemNumber
>    local myAboutMenuItemText
>    local myAboutBoxStackLongName
> 
>    --
>    --  Pull out the Text for the About Box Item
>    --
>    put line -1 of the text of me into myAboutMenuItemText
>    delete char 1 of myAboutMenuItemText
>    switch theItemSelected
>    case myAboutMenuItemText
> 
>      --
>      --  Go to the About Window
>      --
>      put ISMGetStackForService(kAppServiceAboutBox) into 
> myAboutBoxStackLongName
>      if myAboutBoxStackLongName <> empty then
>        go to stack myAboutBoxStackLongName
>      end if
>      break
> 
>    case "Help"
>      break
> 
>    end switch
> end menuPick
> 
> 
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