At 12:21 -0500 07/11/2002, John Hart wrote:
>1. I have an installmenu member "menubar" in my projector, which
>also calls an miaw. This miaw has an installmenu member "miawmenu"
>but it loads in place of the projector menu.
Currently you get one menu per Projector instance. Whatever menu your
MIAW installs overrides the previous one.
The workaround such as it is is to build your own menus. OSCXtra from
peghole.com has system widgets aplenty, including menus, so you can
use that to make per-window menus if you want.
>2. In author mode of my miaw, I repeatedly get the error "Unable to
>load "c:\blah, blah" because it is already open with write
>permission by another user" while I am playing with the miaw.
That happens when the file is not properly closed and forgotten.
I instantiate and destruct menus from sprite instances on my stage.
That way when the sprite ends the MIAW is forgotten. Works very
nicely.
>3. This one is very anal retentive. I frequently program from the
>hip. You know, start typing without a plan, adding casts
>willy-nilly.
Not a good way to go if you're doing complicated stuff. In fact I'd
say it's the diametric opposite of being anal retentive. More like
wanting to get the product back for retention after you've flushed,
as it were. ;)
>Isn't there a way to re-alpha the list of casts, moving that
>infernal "internal" to the "i's, and the "a's" to the top of the
>list in authormode?
You mean by selecting all the cast members, then going with Modify
--> Sort... and then selecting the "member name" radio button in the
ensuing dialog box?
>And by the way, how do I get my wife to stop leavig hair strands in
>the bathroom sink?
Shave her head. Unless keeping her alive is not important, in which
case you can just shoot her.
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