detect left mouse button clicked in menu bar

2009-08-13 Thread David M. Cotter
i know i can detect when a particular menu is about to be shown, but what I want is to run a quick process before any menus from the menu bar are shown, and not run it again all the while the user is browsing the menus in the menu bar how do i do this? apparently there is no mouseDown

Re: detect left mouse button clicked in menu bar

2009-08-13 Thread Peter Ammon
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:56 PM, David M. Cotter wrote: i know i can detect when a particular menu is about to be shown, but what I want is to run a quick process before any menus from the menu bar are shown, and not run it again all the while the user is browsing the menus in the menu bar

Re: detect left mouse button clicked in menu bar

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Watson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 16:56, David M. Cotter m...@davecotter.com wrote: i know i can detect when a particular menu is about to be shown, but what I want is to run a quick process before any menus from the menu bar are shown Launching a process is by no means a quick operation. It is