Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-14 Thread James Hurley
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 stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Having fits with the menu bar Message-ID

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-13 Thread James Hurley
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:43:56 -0600 From: J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Having fits with the menu bar Message-ID: 4d7bccfc.6000...@hyperactivesw.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 3

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-13 Thread stephen barncard
I don't know, James, it's pretty complex: switch pWhich case Cut cut break case Copy copy break

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Haworth
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. OTOH, you

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
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

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
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 Edit

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
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

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Haworth
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

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Haworth
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

Re: Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Haworth
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 http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.com/MollysRevenge http://www.myspace.com/mollysrevengeband On Mar 12, 2011, at 3:15 PM, J. Landman Gay

Having fits with the menu bar

2011-03-11 Thread James Hurley
%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