Mousedown in Application Menubar Messages

David Bovill david.bovill at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 16:47:29 EST 2024


Thanks Paul - I'll check with 9.6.1 - I'm getting this behavior with10 dp7
on MacOS

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 20:19, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I've not experienced any problems with the menubar group receiving a
> mouseDown message to adjust the menus based on context before they
> appear (LC versions up to 9.6.11 on macOS and Windows)
>
> A long time back, I did have an unnecessary  'wait 0 with messages' in
> my mouseDown handler and had instances where other messages fired before
> my mouseDown handler was done (or so it seemed).
>
>
> On 2/5/2024 3:07 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote:
> > I'm having a difficult to track down issue with application menus I've
> > created using the Menu Builder tool - everything works but the
> "mouseDown"
> > message is not sent to the group - well sometimes it is sometimes it is
> not
> > :) I'm using "mousedown" to trigger dynamic formatting of the menus.
> Menupick
> > messages are sent fine.
> >
> > Has anyone had a similar experience - I feel it may be due to the detail
> of
> > how the menu-buttons are formatted in the group - but it might also be a
> > bug in dp7?
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