menu woes...

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/29/04 1:56 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Jacque-
> 
> Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 9:46:44 PM, you wrote:
> 
> JLG> I don't think it is really broken as such. Once I understood how it
> JLG> works, menu behavior started to make sense. You just have to account for
> JLG> the scrolling behavior on Macs and plan for it. I haven't noticed any
> JLG> blank space on my Windows apps.
> 
> Well, this may be an issue of semantics. "Planning for it" means
> leaving enough space at the top of a stack so that when it scrolls on
> the Mac none of the data will be hidden.

One thing to note is that the stack scroll will be the height of your 
menubar *group* -- which is not necessarily the height of the visible 
buttons. Sometimes you may need to shorten the enclosing group a bit. 
Then you shouldn't lose any space at the top.

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