AW: good practise on handling menues on Mac?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Thank you Paul for sharing your experiences, I will give it a try.
Tiemo


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im
Auftrag
> von Paul Hibbert
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013 09:12
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: Re: good practise on handling menues on Mac?
> 
> To follow up

> 
> I fired up Parallels for some experimenting on Windows and found out that
> the "Set as stack Menu bar" check box in the Menu Builder does have an
> effect on the Menubar, at least on Win 7. It adds a background decoration
> to the Menubar, but that only shows for the width of the Menubar buttons
> plus a bit, it doesn't extend to the right hand side of the window, so I
> did a little more experimenting.
> 
> The default Menubar on other apps does cover the full width of the window,
> I added the following to the stack script to achieve the same effect in
LC,
> but this feels a bit like like a bodge, so does anyone know if there is a
> better or easier way to do this?
> 
> ##
> 
> on openStack
>    if the platform is "Win32" then ## Don't need this for Mac - Not sure
> about Linux
>       lock screen
>       # Store the loc of the buttons to use in resizeStack, otherwise they
> wander
>       repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls in grp "MenubarX"
>          set the uLoc of control x of grp "MenubarX" to the loc of of
> control x of grp "MenubarX"
>       end repeat
>       # Store the left of the Menubar to use in resizeStack
>       set the uMenuLeft of grp "MenubarX" to the left of grp "MenubarX"
>       # The standard Menubar over hangs by 3px to the left so do the same
> on the right
>       set the width of grp "MenubarX" to the width of this stack + 6
>    end if
>    unlock screen
>    revUpdateGeometry ## Ensures everything views correctly end openStack
> 
> on resizeStack newWidth
>    if the platform is "Win32" then
>       lock screen
>       set the width of grp "MenubarX" to newWidth + 6
>       set the left of grp "MenubarX" to the uMenuLeft of grp "MenubarX" #
> To anchor the LH side
>       # Required to stop the buttons from wandering
>       repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls in grp "MenubarX"
>          set the loc of control x of grp "MenubarX" to the uLoc of of
> control x of grp "MenubarX"
>       end repeat
>    end if
>    unlock screen
>    revUpdateGeometry ## Ensures everything views correctly end resizeStack
> 
> ##
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 2013-01-28, at 8:17 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
> 
> > Tiemo,
> >
> > It's not usual to show your own menus on a Mac, if you check the option
> to "Set as stack Menu bar" that is next to the Menu bar name in the Menu
> Builder (LC 5.5.3) it will integrate your menu with the standard Mac Menu
> bar so you won't have duplicate 'Quit" item.
> >
> > I don't think this check box has any effect on Windows, but I'm not 100%
> sures, I just noticed that in the latest user guide (p113) it shows a
> version of the Menu Builder that has the label "Set as Menu Bar on Mac
OS".
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 2013-01-28, at 6:20 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Still not being good on Mac I wonder what is a good practice?
> >>
> >> When building an app for windows, you create your own app menus. For
> >> example you have the standard "file - quit" menu item
> >>
> >> When taking over this app to Mac you still have (more or less) the
> >> same menus. But additionally you get the standard apple menu, where
> >> you now have additionally a quit (Cmd + Q) item to quit your app.
> >>
> >> How do you handle this duplicity of menus?
> >>
> >> Do you actually show your own menus on Mac, or is there a way to
> >> suppress it on Mac and put all items into the "apple menu bar" ? And
if,
> how?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any pointers
> >>
> >> Tiemo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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