Menu Builder

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

That approach should work fine -- I just tested it again on my system, and I use this kind of thing all the time to build menus on the fly. Maybe you could post your scripts so we could see what's going on?

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:10 AM, Pete wrote:

> OK, now on to the next step.  Menus working fine, all scripted.
> 
> Now I want to add a menu item to the File menu in certain circumstances.  I
> coded a mouseDown handler in the button named "File" in my menu group to do
> this.  It gets the text of the menu, adds the text for the new menu item to
> the end and puts it back into the menu's text property. New text never
> appears.  Set a breakpoint at the start of the handler so I can check my
> logic, even inserted a breakpoint command.  Never breaks.  The menuPick is
> right there in the same script and it works fine so why doesn't mouseDown
> get handled?
> 
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:06 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 1/11/12 10:41 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>> 
>>> Jacqi,
>>> 
>>> Your explanation should appear on the "Menu Builder" Dialog from a
>>> Help Button thereon. It would save a lot of newbies gobs of hair
>>> follicles.
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks. I thought it was in the User Guide but I just looked and couldn't
>> find much. Once you "get it", everything falls into place. But you're right
>> there needs to be something more specific in the docs about the overall
>> idea.
>> 
>> There's a whole scripting conference stack just about menus too:
>> <http://www.runrev.com/**developers/lessons-and-**
>> tutorials/tutorials/online-**scripting-conferences/<http://www.runrev.com/developers/lessons-and-tutorials/tutorials/online-scripting-conferences/>
>>> 
>> 
>> Jeanne DeVoto wrote it and she's an excellent documenter. I forgot to link
>> to that in my other post.
>> 
>> 
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