Search path for defaultMenuBar

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Schonewille wrote:

 > On 18 sep 2008, at 19:40, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >
 >> The defaultMenuBar is becoming increasingly important for a couple
 >> of my apps as their complexity grows.  But the docs offer only this
 >> slender tidbit about it:
 >>
 >>  The defaultMenuBar is the short name of any group that is in
 >>  a stack that is in memory.
 >>
 >> Short name, eh?  That means no reference to the stack that contains
 >> it.
 >>
 >> So if I have multiple stacks in which each has its own menuBar set
 >> to a group using the same name as the others, how does the engine
 >> determine which group is the defaultMenuBar?
 >>
 >> Is it the group in topmost stack?
 >> The one in the stack that was topmost at the time the defaultMenuBar
 >> was last set?
 >> Or something else?
 >
 > After starting a new session, the defaultMenubar contains (on Mac OS
 > X):
 >
 > group "revMenuBar" of card "card id 1002" of stack "/Applications/
 > Revolution Enterprise/3.0.0-gm-3/Toolset/revmenubar.rev"
 >
 > Not the short name, apparently.

Curious.

Good sleuthing - I've reported the docs error:
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7184

I can play around with it to figure out what happens if one uses only 
the short name, but if anyone here knows please chime in.

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