Stephen,
Well, that was easy. I was expecting some "selectedText" code.
Thanks,
Jim
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:17:23 -0700
> From: stephen barncard
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Having fits with the menu bar
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On 3/13/11 10:06 AM, James Hurley wrote:
The only one I will have some difficulty with is the Preference item.
In the app I am working on there is no clear need for user
preferences. Maybe I will add something like this: A couple of radio
buttons with the choice:
O -- I would prefer to lose 5 p
Yes, he's such a reasonable and flexible guy.
Pete Haworth
On Mar 12, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Pete-
>
> Saturday, March 12, 2011, 3:27:08 PM, you wrote:
>
>> As noted in my earlier post in rely to Bob, if the OS doesn't
>> allow it so be it and Livecode has no choice.
>
> OT
I don't know, James, it's pretty complex:
switch pWhich
case "Cut"
cut
break
case "Copy"
copy
break
ask for
it.)
Thanks again,
Jim Hurley
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> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:43:56 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay"
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Having fits with the menu bar
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Pete-
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 3:27:08 PM, you wrote:
> As noted in my earlier post in rely to Bob, if the OS doesn't
> allow it so be it and Livecode has no choice.
OTOH, you could request that Apple change its policy. I'm sure The
Steve would recognize the wisdom of your arguments.
--
-Ma
As noted in my earlier post in rely to Bob, if the OS doesn't allow it so be it
and Livecode has no choice.
Pete Haworth
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On Mar 12, 2011, at 3:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 3/12/11 5:05 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
My comment wasn't about the menu bar but where the items on the menus
go. LC moves the last item in your Help menu and the last two items
in the Edit menu to different menus to accommodate the "guideline" as
to where the About and Preferences menu items s
On 3/12/11 3:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
No doubt the HIG police will jump all over me for this but it's not
really about HIG, it's about Livecode providing ways for developers
to do things the way they want to do things, not how LiveCode wants
to.
You'll have to take it up with Apple. As soon
My comment wasn't about the menu bar but where the items on the menus go. LC
moves the last item in your Help menu and the last two items in the Edit menu
to different menus to accommodate the "guideline" as to where the About and
Preferences menu items should appear. As you've found, you can b
You're right. If the OS doesn't allow it, then clearly Livecode has to enforce
it.
Pete Haworth
On Mar 12, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I think the question is, would the OS actually allow it? It may not. I
> remember years ago, while working with FoxPro for the mac, that because
a stack and using the menu
builder made the menus "AppName', 'Wassock' and 'Pooh', instead of
'LiveCode', 'File' and 'Edit'...
John Dixon
> Subject: Re: Having fits with the menu bar
> From: b...@twft.com
> Date: Sat, 1
I think the question is, would the OS actually allow it? It may not. I remember
years ago, while working with FoxPro for the mac, that because Microsoft wanted
to have compete control over their menu structure, their menus were not
actually "menus" at all. Because of that, any utilities that did
This calls for a Livecode Newsletter article!
Bob
On Mar 12, 2011, at 11:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Standard behavior. A preferences item under the app menu is put there by the
> OS. There are funky ways to disable it, but its presence is standard and
> expected by all Mac users. Your Edi
I almost replied on this topic a couple of days ago when there was another user
confused by this.
I do agree that the way Livecode arranges menus for the Mac is standard
behavior for OSX according to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. My problem
with what Livecode does is that "standard" and
On 3/12/11 12:25 PM, James Hurley wrote:
But there are still some issues. In the OSX menu I now see 4 menus
only 3 of which are of my doing. They are:
LiveCode File Edit Help
Those are standard OS X conventions. The first menu item is supplied by
the OS and is always the name of the frontmos
Thanks Jacque. Now I'm marking some progress.
>
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> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:02:46 -0600
> From: "J. Landman Gay"
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Having fits with the menu bar
> Message-ID: <4d7b1a96.6040...@hyperactivesw.com>
>
On 3/11/11 7:13 PM, James Hurley wrote:
&&%R$$#^#*((
I'm trying to keep this clean.
I'm getting nowhere with the menu bar. (Mac OS)
I have two item in the menu bar, a "File" menu and a "Help" menu.
They both work as expected in the IDE.
But when I set the menubar property of the stack to the
&&%R$$#^#*((
I'm trying to keep this clean.
I'm getting nowhere with the menu bar. (Mac OS)
I have two item in the menu bar, a "File" menu and a "Help" menu. They both
work as expected in the IDE.
But when I set the menubar property of the stack to the name of the menu bar
group, the menu di
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