What Is Triggering The Menu?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Feb 7 18:43:36 EST 2005


On 2/7/05 5:06 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> On OSX, I set up a menu with 1, 2 and 3 as command keys for one of the menu
> buttons.  When pressing the keys on the keyboard, the menu flashes as if
> triggered, but no menuPick message is generated and the menu does nothing.
> If I change the command keys to letters, for example, the menuPick message
> is sent and the menu operates as expected.  How can I use numbers as command
> key equivalents for menu options?

The IDE traps for these and uses them to navigate around the stack. 
Could it be that the IDE is intercepting your menu commands? If your 
stack is frontmost and its menubar is showing, then that shouldn't 
happen of course.

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