Stack Menu Mystery - Disappointing Documentation (Long, sorry)

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Nov 25 15:40:38 EST 2014


John Dixon wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> 
>> > And along with that we should probably have the Menu Builder
>> > automatically create File and Edit menus complete with the
>> > script commands that make them work.
>> 
>> Maybe.  It's a tough call with a toolkit as flexible as LiveCode,
>> since it's used for such a wide range of different types of apps,
>> each of which may have any variety of data storage methods,
>> undoable actions the engine can't know about, etc.
> 
> it would pay them to look at 'superCard', they have building menus
> 'down pat'...:-)

Although I spent the first decade of my company focused on SuperCard, 
it's been a while since I've had occasion to use it deeply.

What sort of scripts do they now pre-populate menus with?  How do they 
account for the range of things people build?

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