sane way to keep menubar on mac (and what about windows???)

[Mark Schonewille]

Richard:

set the defaultMenubar to the long id of grp "Menubar 1" of stack "My 
Main stack"

This makes the menubar stick.

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On 3/2/2015 04:22, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> My primary target is mac, but I'll probably sell more windows than mac over
> the long run, so I can't *completely* ignore it.
>
> After mucking around and installing menus, I'm not seeing a sane solution
> to keep application menus around.
>
> My experimenting suggests that to keep the menu for the main stack (which
> I've made the default menu), the main stack needs to be visible.  I tried
> to make the main stack invisible, but this gives me the single application
> menu, rather than its.
>
> My interim solution is rather than invisibility, it pops to above the
> screen with a negative bottom, and flipping down when needed.
>
> This, however, seems just plain nuts.
>
> And WIndows would present the same problem
>
> To reveal my windows side ignorance (yes, I've really never owned a windows
> box!), just how *does* a windows program present a menu or choices before
> it has a user window open?   Leave around a gratuities window?
>