"/" in menuItem

Ben Rubinstein benr_mc at cogapp.com
Mon May 27 03:51:01 EDT 2002


on 23/5/02 10:37 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto at jeanne at runrev.com wrote:

> At 4:53 AM -0700 5/23/2002, Kurt Kaufman wrote:
>> I need to use the "/"  character as part of a menuItem.  Is there an
>> "escape" character that I can use such that RR won't interpret the "/"
>> as  designating a keyboard shortcut?
> 
> Double the slash:
> 
> Foo//Bar
> 
> will show up in the menu as "Foo/Bar".

This works for a pull-down menu, but not for an option or popup menu (on
MacOS 9).  Is there any hope of this bug ever being fixed?

 
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