On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kevin Miller wrote:
> >
> > On 28/11/00 5:47 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What settings should I use in a popup button to make its menu drop down
> > > aligned to the left side of the button? I see that menu buttons placed
> > > in a menu group always drop down with the correct alignment, but when a
> > > popup button is on the card the menu is drawn at the location of the
> > > mouse. This is on a Mac.
> >
> > Use pulldown instead.
>
> When I choose "pulldown" from the list of styles in the button
> properties dialog, MC immediately re-selects "popup" instead. I can set
> the button style to "pulldown" via the message box, though. The problem
> seems to be with the dialog interface.
>
> > > Also, how come I can't set some of the other button styles? I seem to
> > > remember being able to set combo buttons in the past, for example, but
> > > now those options don't work. The style always reverts back to popup in
> > > the properties dialog.
> >
> > Works here - does it work if you just create a new button and change style?
>
> No. I cannot choose most of the button styles in the right-hand list
> except for popup. Looks like an interface problem rather than an engine
> problem, I guess.
This must be a HyperCard stack, and the problem is HyperCard
compatibility run amok. Since HyperCard doesn't have different menu
types, MetaCard always returns "popup" when you get the style of a
button that's set to be a menu in an imported HyperCard stack. You
can work around this by setting the "menuMode" property of the button
to whatever you want ("pulldown" in this case) using the message box.
Or, set the hcAddressing property of the stack to false, which will
disable most of these pesky compatibility features for that stack.
Regards,
Scott
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