Menu newbie confusion

[Jerry Jensen]

Eureka! That works.

So the Menu Builder is in the same doghouse as the Geometry Manager...

Thanks a million,
Jerry

On Aug 18, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is something flaky with the Menu Builder
> 
> If you watch the Menu Buider you'll see for Menu Items it simply puts an
> open bracket '(' before the Item Name. Why this is making the name
> disappear and not come back I don't know, BUT if you manually or via script
> simply add or remove the '(' the Item Name will gray as expected; at least
> it does for me LC 6.1.1 rc 2 OS X 10.8.4
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:
> 
>> In all my time with LC, I've never used menus - until now. I'm having some
>> trouble getting the hang of it. I'm using LC Community 6.1.0 on OSX 10.8.4 .
>> 
>> I'm simply trying to add a menu of my own to the mac menu bar with a
>> disabled item. I have made one with the Menu Builder in a new empty stack.
>> When I tick the "Disabled" box of an item using the Menu Builder, I'd like
>> to see it "grayed-out" in the menu when its pulled down. Instead, its
>> simply empty white space.
>> 
>> I have tried setting the text colors of the button that is the menu, using
>> the Project Browser but it doesn't seem to change anything.
>> 
>> What am I missing? Pointers to documentation gratefully accepted.
>> 
>> Cheer,
>> Jerry
>> 
>> 
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