Menu font sizes

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/15/11 1:03 PM, edward cawley wrote:

>> Where do I find the menu group in the IDE? I have two substacks
>> with text fields with the menu information. When I use the menu
>> setup it sets up the menu which works fine in MacOS X but it is in
>> small (6 or 8) in the Windows. I went into the control panel of
>> Windows an increase the font size of the menu and it increased the
>> Windows bar but the app menu below is still the same. So my problem
>> is finding the menu group in the IDE which effects the Windows/App
>> menu. I may not be setting the app menu properly, I let LiveCode do
>> it I I don't see a menu in the application browser.??
>>

Two ways. It's in the application browser. Click on any card that 
contains your menu. It should be one of the groups on the card. On 
Windows, you can also see it at the top of the card. On Mac, you can see 
it if you do this in the message box:

   set the editmenus of this stack to true

That will unscroll the window so the menu group shows.

But I agree that my first advice wasn't the best, the menu should really 
adjust according to the user's preference setting in Windows. Because 
it's just a regular LiveCode group, it won't respond to the system 
settings, as you found out. Right now adjusting for system settings 
isn't as easy to do as it could be; you need to read the registry. There 
are also different default font and size settings for different versions 
of Windows.

For now, you could check to see what the LiveCode menu uses and just use 
that (I'd look it up for you but I haven't got Windows running right 
now. Maybe someone else remembers.)

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