OSX Menu Mystery

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Mon Mar 14 14:03:01 EST 2005


This is very strange, indeed. When I select  a topic from the Help  
menu, Rev opens a new stack that briefly shows "copy of revdocs" in its  
title bar. As far as I can tell, only the menu stuff is different  
between it and the topics when selected from the docs window.

Clearly a glitch.

Dan

On Mar 14, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:51:48 +0000, Kevin Miller <kevin at runrev.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Click Topics.  Click on "Menus and the Menu bar".  Its all there.
>
> I was going to reply:
>
> Kevin, I have no such topic: I have a topic "Menus" and there is only  
> one subtopic relating to OSX, and this only deals with the fact that  
> the menuPick for 'Quit' will not be executed under OSX. A search for  
> 'Help' or 'Preferences' doesn't reveal anything. I guess I'm looking  
> in the wrong place.
>
> But on Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:25:31 -0600, "J. Landman Gay"  
> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> then wrote:
>>
>> I see it now, sorry. It is under the system Help menu rather than  
>> under
>> the Topics button in the documentation. Might be a good idea to have  
>> all
>> the topics in the system menu duplicated in the Topics docs button.  
>> That
>> way people can find everything from either place. I know I overlooked  
>> it.
>
> Well, so did I and this thread's been going on for quite a time with  
> nobody pointing this out. I didn't realise that there was anything in  
> the system 'Help' menu that wasn't in the docs: I'd never even thought  
> of looking there. In fact the explanation there is very full and  
> clear, but what is the idea of the disparity between the two sets of  
> information? There is clearly a partial overlap, but if there is a  
> policy behind it,  I haven't seen it explained anywhere.
>
> Graham
>
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