Getting use of menus straight

[Mike Kerner]

On the Mac, instead of being in the top left of your window, it will
display at the top of your display.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight.
> (Hey, I'm not a GUI kind of person.  My general reaction is that they're
> for displaying arrays of xterms . . . )
>
> So for mac, I set the defaultMenuBar, which can hang around in the main
> stack.  For substacks with custom menus, I need to have an additional menu
> group with copies of the common buttons, and the extras. (and so a script
> can copy those).  But these groups could be on any card of any stack.
>
> For Windows/Unix, however, I will need to copy the default group from the
> main stack to each substack that uses it, and place that group on every
> card.
>
> And for the script to keep the copies synchronized, something like
>
> set the properties of btn "File" of group "myMenu" of stack st to \
>      the properties of btn "File" of group "myMenu" of stack "mainStack"
>
> and similarly for customProperties if used, and a one-time for the
> behavior?
>
> And to be clear, the group with these on Windows/Unix is just another group
> that lives in the upper left?  But this doesn't seem quite the case; I made
> the menu with menubuilder on a mac, and it knows to put it there on
> windows/unix, but not display on mac.
>
> Or does the menubar property indeed have something that carries over to
> windows/unix, in spite of the dictionary saying that it is mac only?
>
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