Stack Menu Mystery - Disappointing Documentation (Long, sorry)

[Richard Gaskin]

Graham Samuel wrote:
 > I’ve been using LC for a long time but I’ve never used a stack menu. ...
 > I don’t know how I can use this to make the stack menu ‘look like a
 > standard menu’

You can't.

Stack menus were originally the only way to make menus in MetaCard, fine 
for when it only ran under Motif in Unix but quickly became both 
tiresome to create and often with an appearance that didn't match other 
HIGs.

Dr. Raney remedied the issue in the mid-90s by create the menu subclass 
of buttons, so we now have pulldowns, popups, and other common menu 
types that more closely match user expectations on supported platforms.

On OS X, the contents of menu buttons are rendered using OS routines so 
they look and behave like standard menus.  I hope to see the same on 
Ubuntu once we get Themes.

Now that we have the menu subclass for buttons, the only time using 
stacks as menus are useful today is for non-textual menus, like popup 
galleries, color pickers, etc.

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