Best practice for menus...

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

 > On 1/17/17 2:27 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >> I was curious about performance, so I ran the test copied below, with
 >> these results:
 >>
 >>   MenuItem: 219 ms
 >>   As text:  10 ms
 >
 > Do the results change if you lock menus before changing them?
 > Manipulating menus, especially on Macs, is expensive and locking
 > menus helps to alleviate that. Not sure about other platforms though.

I did test that, but no difference here, as I ran the test on Ubuntu.

IIRC that's a Mac-only property that has no effect on Windows and Linux, 
merely preventing the update of the OS menubar from LC until idle.

I hope one day that'll be a Linux property, too.  Like Mac, Ubuntu has a 
global menu bar, and it would be nice to also have control over when it 
gets updated.

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