on 8/28/2003 4:32 AM, Dan Dixon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using Entourage X 10.1.4, service release 1 on OS X 10.2.6. > > When I position the Office Notification window along the bottom of my > monitor, the "Remind" and "Dismiss" menus are blank when I open them (except > for a scroll-down triangle). Moving the cursor onto the scroll triangle does > nothing, UNLESS I first move the cursor off of the Notification window and > menu (out onto the desktop), and then move it back to the scroll triangle. > > Is this oddity specific to my system, or is it an Entourage problem?
Nope, it is just how popup menus work. The basic logic is this (from a programmer's viewpoint): 1) Create the largest rectangle that can hold the menu items based upon the location of the popup menu (or all that can fit on the screen at one time). 2) Make sure that rectangle is completely on the screen (I'll leave multiple monitor logic out here, but this is where it would go). 3) Find which item would be the currently selected item - the one that the programmer said should be under the mouse when the menu was shown. 4) If the menu extends above or below the top and bottom of the menu rectangle, draw "scrolling arrows" to show that there is more above or below the visible part of the menu. Steps 3 and 4 are the part that generates the "blank" menu because the first item under the mouse should be item 1, but that is at the bottom of the menu rectangle which is at the bottom of the screen, so the first item is shown below the scrolling arrow. -- Glenn L. Austin <>< Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.austin-home.com/glenn/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
