stack menu

[Richard Gaskin]

Peter Brigham MD wrote:
> This is the first time I've really tried to use stack menus. I'm
> building a stack menu during the course of user operations in a stack
> -- it's a menu of recent images accessed, with thumbnails and stored
> data associated with them. I've assigned a menustack as the menuName
> of a pulldown menu button, and all the scripts for handling user input
> are in the menustack stack script. I resize the menustack every time I
> add a "menuitem" (actually a group consisting of a thumbnail and a
> field) or choose an item from the menu (it deletes more recent
> menuitems, as a "recent" menu should).
>
> Things are working fine, but a problem arises when the menustack gets
> too tall. Clicking on the pulldown menu button pops up the menu, but
> the bottom of it is chopped off, as it would descend below the
> screenrect.

See:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6072>

It would be great to see this fixed.  There's a lot of power in using 
stacks as menus for galleries and such, but precious few people using 
them (only two of us have voted for #6072 thus far).

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  Richard Gaskin
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