Is the menubar visible?

Richmond Mathewson geradamas at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 28 10:53:11 EST 2008


Just spent a fruitless half-hour trying to find a way
to know.

This might be because there is an ambiguity between
MENUBAR used as a property to set up a GROUP as a MENU
(rather than the standard Mac menu) and HIDE MENUBAR.

Being fairly naive I imagined MENUBAR in HIDE MENUBAR
referred to something a bit like a stack - but it
doesn't seem to refer to an Object / Control as one
might imagine it would.

Therefore this works:

put the vis of btn "XYZ" into fld "SEEME"

but 

put the vis of menuBar into fld "SEEME"

doesn't

NOW . . .

were RunRev to use a non-ambiguous term for the mac
menubar such as MACMENU and set up RR so MACMENU was
'seen' as a RR control we would not be having this
problem.

the same problem applies to HIDE TASKBAR.

HOWEVER, another thing occurs to me:

to quote RR documentation;

"Hiding the menu bar  in Revolution does not affect
its appearance in other applications; if the user
switches to another application, the menu bar becomes
visible. If the user switches back to Revolution, the
menu bar is hidden again."

this would seem to suggest that the programmer of a RR
stack / standalone was probably the one to hide the
menubar in the first place.

Now I know one can get a bit sweaty round the oxters
at 3 am after a 15 hour stretch of programming, but
this slightly begs the question.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson

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