Help menu issues (Mac)

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Graham,

Did you use the menu builder to create the menubar? Which handlers  
does your Help menu script have?

AFAIK, you can't suppress the search field --it annoys me too.

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On 19 aug 2008, at 12:41, Graham Samuel wrote:

> Folks, I'm just beginning serious RR work after a long gap, and I've  
> started by looking at stuff I did earlier. I'm now using RR 2.9.0  
> for most of my work.
>
> I've returned to an app I created as a standalone I think with  
> RR2.8.1 (it was a long time ago) and I'm running it on a Mac with  
> Leopard 10.5.4. Everything works as expected, except that when I  
> pick the Help menu on the main menu bar, the name 'Help' hilites  
> when clicked, as expected, but then it stays hilited even after the  
> menu action is completed: completion consisting of closing a window  
> with instructions which had opened when the menu item was chosen.  
> The hilitie only vanishes when I click on another menu. None of the  
> other menus suffers from this problem. Can anyone explain this?
>
> Also by Mac convention (presumably), the Help menu now contains a  
> search field as well as the 'Help' item which I programmed. Can I do  
> anything to suppress this? I think it will just confuse my users  
> (schoolchildren) as the search can lead into general Mac help files  
> which would seem irrelevant to them.
>
> TIA
>
> Graham