OS X menubar not updating

[Stephen Barncard]

set the text of btn works for me. I've never used 'put into' however.
perhaps you have to load the entire menu text in a variable , insert 
or rewrite each line and then set the text of the button to it.

I assemble a complete menu listing on the fly on mousedown, then set 
the text of the button to it. This all happens before menupick. This 
guarantees refreshing just in time.

This definition of lock menus in the docs seems to say you can't 
change the menubars when they are locked ??? See what happens when 
you take that line out.

"Sets the lockMenus property to true, preventing the menu bar from 
being updated when the controls for the menu bar are changed."


this seems to be quite different than LOCK SCREEN.




>Hi folks,
>
>I'm trying to create some kind of dynamic menubar, but this does not 
>work as exspected :-/
>
>This is my (test) script in the mainstack, which does work in 
>general, but the actual menubar does not update!
>The substacks do not have any scripts
>
>on resumestack
>   lock menus
>   put the target & CR & the owner of the target
>   put the short name of the owner of the target into zielstack
>   set the label of btn "idappmenu" of grp "mbar2" of cd 1 of stack 
>"mbar" to zielstack
>   switch zielstack
>   case "menutest2"
>     put "menutest2 item1" & CR & "menutest2 item2" into btn 
>"idappmenu" of cd 1 of stack "mbar"
>     show btn "idappmenu" of grp "mbar2" of cd 1 of stack "mbar"
>     break
>   case "menutest3"
>     put "menutest3 item1" & CR & "menutest3 item2" & CR & "menutest3 
>item3" into btn "idappmenu" of cd 1 of stack "mbar"
>     show btn "idappmenu" of grp "mbar2" of cd 1 of stack "mbar"
>     break
>   case "menutest1" ## Mainstack
>     hide btn "idappmenu" of grp "mbar2" of cd 1 of stack "mbar"
>     ## I only want this extra menu in the substacks!
>     break
>   end switch
>   unlock menus
>end resumestack
>


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stephen barncard
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