lack of Mac OS X intuition: system menu

[Slava Paperno]

Paolo, Mark--thanks for these tips. Combinations of "Set as stack Menu bar"
and "Preview in Menu bar" now work as you say. I think I know what's going
on, though. When the IDE is started by launching the *.livecode stack file,
the stack starts in the Run mode. At this point the menu bar is my custom
menu bar (a group), and by clicking the Browse tool, I cannot restore the
IDE menu bar. Conversely, if I start the IDE first and then open that stack
file, I have control, as you describe.

I've noticed other strange things with 4.6.3 on this PPC G5. For example, if
I build the PPC Mac OS standalone with the 4.6.2 in Windows and copy it to
the G5 for testing, the menu bar in the standalone works as expected. But if
I build the PPC standalone in the 4.6.3 on the G5, and then test it on the
same machine, its menu bar consists only of the one item that the system
puts in (with the About and Quit commands). My custom menu bar is not used.
Weird.

I'll have to experiment some more, or just give up on PPC and always author
in Windows. The bigger problem at the moment is that the revBrowser on the
Mac doesn't display Unicode Cyrillic. For each double-byte character it
shows two single-byte characters, even though the same Web pages are
displayed fine in revBrowser Windows, and also in Safari on the same Mac.
The charset meta tag is correct, and I don't know what else to check. I'll
go through the forums.

Gratefully,

Slava

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 5:43 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: lack of Mac OS X intuition: system menu
> 
> Hi Slava,
> 
> This can indeed be a problem once in a while. If you have closed all
palettes and
> windows and your own stack is the only stack visible, then you get may
stuck.
> Just don't close the tools palette unless you're absolutely sure. Whenever
you
> click in an IDE window or choose the pointer tool, you should see the IDE
menu
> bar, unless the Preview In Menubar option is set to true.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
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> On 31 jul 2011, at 04:54, Slava Paperno wrote:
> 
> > I've been learning LC in Windows, and have now switched to Mac OS X,
> > where everything is just so intuitive and easy... can someone please
> > tell me how to remove my application menu from the system menu bar and
> > restore the LC menu so I can do some work? My intuition fails on this
> > point. I know I've seen this mentioned somewhere but can't find it now.
> Thanks!
> >
> > Slava
> 
> 
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