Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/21/12 9:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Actually, you can share groups from a mainstack to any of its substacks. How? I've been wanting to do that for years You've probably already seen my retraction. Last year I worked on a stack that shared a

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/21/12 9:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Actually, you can share groups from a mainstack to any of its substacks. How? I've been wanting to do that for years You've probably already seen my retraction. Last year I worked on a stack that shared a menu bar with multipl

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Actually, you can share groups from a mainstack to any of its substacks. How? I've been wanting to do that for years, so we could get something close to Gain Momentum's "View" objects but haven't been able to do it. Back in the day I asked Dr. Raney, and he told me it c

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/20/12 9:54 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, J. Landman Gay wrote: Actually, you can share groups from a mainstack to any of its substacks. Which is exactly what I want to do--but how? I created in the main sack, but it doesn't paper when try to use the menu object-

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > > Actually, you can share groups from a mainstack to any of its substacks. > > Which is exactly what I want to do--but how? I created in the main sack, but it doesn't paper when try to use the menu object->place , it isn't there as an option.

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/20/12 7:48 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: On 20.06.2012 at 17:28 Uhr -0700 Paul Hibbert apparently wrote: > But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, so that I have to change all of them? No, if you use 'Place Group' it will put a 'referenced copy' of the menu

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.06.2012 at 17:28 Uhr -0700 Paul Hibbert apparently wrote: > But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, so that I have to change all of them? No, if you use 'Place Group' it will put a 'referenced copy' of the menu group on the card, so any edits to the grou

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2012-06-20, at 5:11 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: >> Yes, just use the Object menu to place the menu group on the cards in the >> substack. > > Thanks > > But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, > so that I ha

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Yes, just use the Object menu to place the menu group on the cards in the > substack. Thanks But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, so that I have to change all of them? -- The Hawkins Law Firm Richard E.

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/20/12 2:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: hmm, can I re-use this same menubar from the substacks, or do I have to duplicated it for each one? (the latter would seem to be asking for maintenance problems!) Yes, just use the Object menu to place the menu group on the cards in the substack. -- J

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > Your menus should work in "Run" mode, i.e. When you choose the Browse tool > (you may need to click on the title bar of your app window first). But > another way to test your menus is to use the "Suspend Development Tools" > under the Devel

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Paul Hibbert
Your menus should work in "Run" mode, i.e. When you choose the Browse tool (you may need to click on the title bar of your app window first). But another way to test your menus is to use the "Suspend Development Tools" under the Development menu. The Application Menu may look a little different

simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I've found the Menu Builder tool, and set up a menu. I can even preview it from within the tool. Is there any way to test it (Mac) short of building a standalone? I would think this would have been in the recent academy videos, or something easily googled, but I can't find it! -- The Hawkins L