Help: Odd menu behavior under LC6.7.11 on OSX

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 15:12:01 EST 2017


Well, the first question anyone is going to ask is why on earth you are
using 6.7.11?

PPC Macs?

"can not move to new versions"

Money for commercial version?

Richmond.

On 1/9/17 9:56 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> We're developing under LC6.7.11 and can not move to new versions of LC
> just at the moment. We are seeing a weird menu rendering issues under
> OSX (Mavericks through El Capitan).
>
> Our group object for our menu buttons has an 'on mouseDown' handler that
> looks at various object states and updates (enables/disables, revises
> wording, etc.) menu items in all the menus of the menubar accordingly.
> i.e. Edit > Copy is not enabled unless there is something to Copy and so on.
>
> We build the app for Windows and OSX. The code works correctly under
> Windows. On OSX what we see is that if you click and hold the mouse down
> on a menu, File, for example, the state of all items in the File menu
> are reflected correctly. If you continue to hold the mouse down and drag
> over to the Edit menu to view that, it reflects the prior menuitem
> states, not what the script just updated them to. If you release the
> button and click on Edit, it now renders the Edit menuItems with the
> correct states.
>
> Has anyone working in 6.7.11 currently or when previously working in
> 6.7.11 seen anything like this?
>
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