Menu Builder

[Pete]

Hi Jacque,
Wanted to let you know that the issue of mouseDwon having to be at the
group level is documented in the USer Guide so you remembered correctly!

I also discovered today that 5.0.2 handles the moving of controls for
system menu purposes differently than 4.6.4.  Just upgraded to 5.0.2 and
the first time I opened my stack, it was slightly higher than with 4.6.4.
 I tried it again in 4.6.4 and it opened slightly less high than it should
have been!

Pete

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:43 AM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 1/12/12 1:01 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>  There's more than one menu I have to dynamically adjust so I need to
>> figure
>> out in the group's mouseDown handler which menu was clicked.  I tried
>> using
>> the short name of me, the short name of the target, and the mouseControl
>> but none of them tell me which button was clicked.  How do I figure that
>> out?
>>
>
> I usually don't bother, though the "short name of the target" should work
> I'd think. I just set everything all at once. Some of my menu handlers are
> fairly long but they still run almost instantly. Manipulating menus is
> expensive, so it's a good idea to lock menus before changing things and
> then unlock menus at the end of the handler.
>
> on mousedown
>  lock menus
>  put blahblah into btn "file" of me
>  put somethingelse into btn "edit" of me
>  unlock menus
> end mousedown
>
>
>
>> The other issue is what needs to be done for Windows.  I think I'm right
>> in
>> saying that the mouseDown event will reach the menu bar group if there is
>> no mouseDown handler for the button itself - right?
>>
>
> Yes. Messages will pass through the hierarchy normally, so you get
> automatic cross-platform behavior.
>
>
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