Context Menus - the look of the thing

[Peter M. Brigham]

Are you trying to construct a stack menu? That is, are you laying out a stack that will pop up when you right-click on something? Are you aware that there are other ways of popping up a contextual menu that leave all the formatting to the engine and the operating system? You really only need a stack menu if you explicitly need it to look and operate differently from your ordinary contextual menu. I have a pop-up contextual menu button and script for a classic contextual menu that makes calling the popup a one-line affair -- put popChoose("right", "left","center") into userChoice. If you're interested email me and I'll send it to you.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

On May 9, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:

> I've never built a context menu up to now, and I'm struggling a bit. I have made it work with the aid of the LC docs, but my popup doesn't look exactly like a conventional menu. I need to know which font, style and size are needed, and the exact spacing (the size of the underlying buttons and the text margins). As this is a cross-platform desktop app, I need to know these for both Mac and Windows. Here the LC docs don't help AFAICS. Of course I can do it by experiment but there are a heck of a lot of fonts.
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> Can anyone who's already done it tell me exactly how to configure context menus to look like native controls?
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> TIA
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> Graham
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> PS - the LC docs tell one to set the individual buttons' autoArm and armBorder properties to true. I had to do this with the LC Message Box because I couldn't find these properties in any other way. I naively thought that in LC 6.0.1 you can reveal (and therefore set) all properties of an object. Was I wrong?
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