Menu problem / question on Macs

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Mon Jun 11 09:50:44 EDT 2007


Hi David,

Could this be related to a simple thing:
The name of any menu should be one word only?

Le 11 juin 07 à 15:47, David Bovill a écrit :

> I want to find out the name of the button clicked on when the user  
> selected
> a menu... and am having a problem with using "the short name of the  
> target"
>
> If used the menu builder to create my menu (Say its called "Problem  
> Menu"),
> and rather than adding a handler to the button of each menu item I  
> put the
> following handler in the group script (click "Edit menu bar Script"):
>
> on mouseDown
>>     put the short name of the target
>>     pass mouseDown
>> end mouseDown
>>
>
> This works fine for clicking on the menu group directly as you  
> would with
> windows / linux, - so say you click on a "Test" menu that you  
> created  -
> Test" would be put into the message box as expected. But if you  
> make "set as
> Menu Bar on Mac OS" -- the name you get returned is the name of the  
> group
> with the handler in ie "Problem Menu" :(
>
> I've had this problem before - which I think is related to the way  
> in which
> the message is "sent" - but this time i can see no work around for  
> what I am
> trying to do - so is there any way to find out the real target?

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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