Re: Parentheses in Menu Items

2008-07-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mikey, The backslash is only necessary if the left parenthesis is the first character of the text of the menu item. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Benefit from our inexpensive hosting s

Parentheses in Menu Items

2008-07-08 Thread Mikey
So I have this menu control on a card. I want to put parentheses in some of the items. However the manual says that putting an open-parentheses in any menuitem disables the item. Instead you should use \(. So I have written a script to fix that problem, but the backslash still appears instead o

dimming of Edit menu items after using OsX file dialogue

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Meit
Hi, HELP I have found both in 2.8.1/2.9b10 that after calling OsX's standard file dialogue to open a file the first 4 menuitems under my Edit menu (stand editing stuff) becomes disabled until I force a redraw of the window by either iconizing it in the dock and uniconizing it or by openin

Re: Checkmarks in Option Button Menu Items

2007-10-23 Thread Ken Ray
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:36:48 +, Mike Hughes wrote: > > I am running Rev 2.7.4 -- could anyone kindly tell me whether > checkmarks (!c) are now allowed in option button menu items, or > whether this is something slated to be fixed for 2.9? Checkmarks in option buttons are c

Checkmarks in Option Button Menu Items

2007-10-23 Thread Mike Hughes
I am running Rev 2.7.4 -- could anyone kindly tell me whether checkmarks (!c) are now allowed in option button menu items, or whether this is something slated to be fixed for 2.9? Many thanks, Mike _ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks

Re: Auto enable Cut, Copy, Paste menu items

2006-09-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
27;re in the current menu bar. But the menuGroup object does get a mouseDown, so just put the handler there (modified of course for the object change). 2. The strategy of updating menu items when they become visible to the user (mouseDown) is how many frameworks, like the ol' Think Class L

Re: Auto enable Cut, Copy, Paste menu items

2006-09-13 Thread Bill Vlahos
ted way to manage the Edit menu items Cut, Copy, and Paste? For example, it only makes sense for Cut or Copy to be enabled if there is any text that is hilited. Another example, if there isn't anything in the clipboard then there is nothing to paste. Even if there is something on the clipboard

Re: Auto enable Cut, Copy, Paste menu items

2006-09-13 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 9/14/06, Bill Vlahos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does Rev have an automated way to manage the Edit menu items Cut, Copy, and Paste? For example, it only makes sense for Cut or Copy to be enabled if there is any text that is hilited. Another example, if there isn't anything in th

Auto enable Cut, Copy, Paste menu items

2006-09-13 Thread Bill Vlahos
Does Rev have an automated way to manage the Edit menu items Cut, Copy, and Paste? For example, it only makes sense for Cut or Copy to be enabled if there is any text that is hilited. Another example, if there isn't anything in the clipboard then there is nothing to paste. Even if

Re: Scripting the menu items

2005-06-14 Thread Jim Hurley
I want to be able to script for the menu items in an Options menu. If there are 3 lines in field myField, I want the menu items to be Quote 1 Quote 2 --you get the idea. But I can't find the code for scripting the menu items in an Options menu. Generally there is a tool tip behind the te

Scripting the menu items

2005-06-14 Thread Jim Hurley
I want to be able to script for the menu items in an Options menu. If there are 3 lines in field myField, I want the menu items to be Quote 1 Quote 2 --you get the idea. But I can't find the code for scripting the menu items in an Options menu. Generally there is a tool tip behind the te

Re: Empty menu items

2004-11-04 Thread Mark Talluto
On Nov 4, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Éric Miclo wrote: Hello, I did found why Revolution create empty menu items, it's when you set a property to a menuItem that doesn't exist. The real problem is tthat I have an app with several stacks that do have each a different menu bar. On opening

Re: Empty menu items

2004-11-04 Thread Éric Miclo
Hello, I did found why Revolution create empty menu items, it's when you set a property to a menuItem that doesn't exist. The real problem is tthat I have an app with several stacks that do have each a different menu bar. On opening a stack or resuming it I set the properties of the

Empty menu items

2004-11-02 Thread Éric Miclo
Hello, I've a big problem with menus and I don't know how to avoid it: upon using an app I developped (either saved as a standalone or used withing the IDE), Revolution adds empty menuItems the the 2 first menus of some of the stacks that belong to my app. The added empty menuItems can be creat

Re: Profiles for Pop-Up menu items

2004-07-23 Thread Thierry Arbellot
If you mean a button which style is popup, yes, you can use profiles for different languages in the menu. Use the text property to store the menu items. Thierry. On Friday, Jul 23, 2004, at 20:43 Europe/Paris, Lars Brehmer wrote: Can the menu items in a pop up menu have different profiles, say

Profiles for Pop-Up menu items

2004-07-23 Thread Lars Brehmer
Can the menu items in a pop up menu have different profiles, say for different languages? None of the profile properties seem to handle this. Is there another way beyond my still meager skills? Thanks gang, Lars ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-30 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 30, 2004, at 11:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have taken to using mouseDown and properties to dynamically set the menu with or with dividers etc depending on platform: e.g. if isMac() then set the text of me to the MacMenu of me, else set the text of me to the WinMenu of me. Or initia

RE: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-30 Thread FlexibleLearning
/H > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Troy Rollins > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:35 PM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Disabling popup menu items > > > > On Jun 29, 2004,

Re: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 30, 2004, at 12:23 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: In what cases is it necessary to have a separator in an option button? Like to keep some distance between "Archive File" and "Delete File" as an example. The option buttons in my app set segments of the GUI into various "modes." The modes can b

RE: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Monte Goulding
>Actually I've taken to providing a blank line (no dash) for Windows to act >as a separator and although it looks a bit odd at first, you get used to it >rather quickly. So my code just traps for a blank line selection >and doesn't >change the menuHistory of the button (i.e. nothing happens). I wo

RE: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Ken Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Troy Rollins > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:35 PM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Disabling popup menu items > > > > On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:29 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> >

Re: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:29 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: How about divider lines? Same deal? Yes.. you just see the dash and it's selectable. How delightfully primitive. ;-) -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAI

RE: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Monte Goulding
>> >>> It seems that option menus behave differently between OSX and Windows. >>> Leading a line with "(" on OSX disables the line for the menu, yet on >>> Windows it just leads the line with it. >>> >>> If you have an option menu on Windows, do you generally disable the >>> item programmatically?

Re: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:17 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: It seems that option menus behave differently between OSX and Windows. Leading a line with "(" on OSX disables the line for the menu, yet on Windows it just leads the line with it. If you have an option menu on Windows, do you generally disable t

RE: Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Monte Goulding
>It seems that option menus behave differently between OSX and Windows. >Leading a line with "(" on OSX disables the line for the menu, yet on >Windows it just leads the line with it. > >If you have an option menu on Windows, do you generally disable the >item programmatically? e.g. > >disable men

Disabling popup menu items

2004-06-29 Thread Troy Rollins
It seems that option menus behave differently between OSX and Windows. Leading a line with "(" on OSX disables the line for the menu, yet on Windows it just leads the line with it. If you have an option menu on Windows, do you generally disable the item programmatically? e.g. disable menuItem

Re: Menu items

2004-03-26 Thread hershrev
On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 11:07 PM, Ken Ray wrote: You don't need to use a stack menu; just put the menu items you want the user to select from into the contents of the button (on the Properties palette it says "menu items"). Add another item that says something like &quo

Re: Menu items

2004-03-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- hershrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an option button, the menu items needs to > be editable, that if the list doesn't contain > the necessary item the user should be able to > add it. I used the "use stack menu" . I used > menupick to trigger

RE: Menu items

2004-03-25 Thread Ken Ray
You don't need to use a stack menu; just put the menu items you want the user to select from into the contents of the button (on the Properties palette it says "menu items"). Add another item that says something like "Edit Items..." and then trap that in menuPick and b

Re: Menu items

2004-03-25 Thread Cubist
sez [EMAIL PROTECTED] >I have an option button, the menu items needs to be editable, that if >the list doesn't contain the necessary item the user should be able to >add it. I used the "use stack menu" . I used menu pick to trigger the > script when a user selects a

Re: Menu items

2004-03-25 Thread hershrev
On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 06:24 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Huh? I have an option button, the menu items needs to be editable, that if the list doesn't contain the necessary item the user should be able to add it. I used the "use stack menu" . I used menu pick to trigger the scr

RE: Menu items

2004-03-25 Thread Ken Ray
Huh? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hershrev > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Menu items > > > Hi all , I need to create an editable drop down menu. I di

Menu items

2004-03-25 Thread hershrev
Hi all , I need to create an editable drop down menu. I did by card but it deesn't function as a card and not as a button? How does it work? Thanks hershrev. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: Accelerator Keys for Button Menu Items Broken on Panther?

2004-02-03 Thread Ian Wood
If one clicks on the button in Mac OSX 10.3.. the Cmd key symbol and letter "F" and "G" appear as expected on the item list. Trouble is, they don't work. They never did work for years in the IDE... and I recall at one point they did start working if you suspended the IDE from the Rev menu

Re: Accelerator Keys for Button Menu Items Broken on Panther?

2004-02-03 Thread Ian Wood
On 22 Nov 2003, at 05:14, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote: I have a pulldown button "Find" with two items Find/F Find Again/G If one clicks on the button in Mac OSX 10.3.. the Cmd key symbol and letter "F" and "G" appear as expected on the item list. Trouble is, they don't work. They never did

Re: Bug in handling Help menu items?

2004-01-27 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Emerson, Am 27.01.2004 um 18:43 schrieb emerson bullen: stop sending me this shit i dont no who you are or what your talking Dr. No??? Could you possibly consider to explain (and maybe even change) your "head"-line, i am afraid i don't understand this joke... Thanks. Regards Klaus Major [E

Re: Bug in handling Help menu items?

2004-01-27 Thread emerson bullen
t in the App menu, nor are any of the > remaining menu items in the Help menu greyed out. In other words the > Help menus items are still selectable, but no menuPick messages come > through. > > This is probably the result of the menu item moving that's being done on > OSX wi

Re: Bug in handling Help menu items?

2004-01-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/27/04 4:57 AM, Frank Leahy wrote: Try disabling the Help menu in Menu Builder. You'll see that the "About Your App" is not greyed out in the App menu, nor are any of the remaining menu items in the Help menu greyed out. In other words the Help menus items are still sel

Re: Bug in handling Help menu items?

2004-01-27 Thread Frank Leahy
On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 10:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 10 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:53:29 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug in handling Help menu items? To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROT

Bug in handling Help menu items?

2004-01-22 Thread Frank Leahy
gets moved to the Application menu as it's supposed to (as does Preferences from the Edit menu), and the only item left in the Help menu is "Open Help Window". All my other menu choices come through the stack menuPick handler, except for these two Help menu items -- "Abo

Accelerator Keys for Button Menu Items Broken on Panther?

2003-11-21 Thread Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
I have a pulldown button "Find" with two items Find/F Find Again/G If one clicks on the button in Mac OSX 10.3.. the Cmd key symbol and letter "F" and "G" appear as expected on the item list. Trouble is, they don't work. They never did work for years in the IDE... and I recall at one point th

Menu items of a popup menu

2003-08-14 Thread Barry Levine
In the Properties of a popup, I can type in a list of what I want the popup to display when it is "mouse-down'd", so to speak. If I wish to fill that popup dynamically, how do I accomplish this? Doesn't look like "menu items" has anything to do with it and ther

Re: Menu items of a popup menu

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Shafer
On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Barry Levine wrote: In the Properties of a popup, I can type in a list of what I want the popup to display when it is "mouse-down'd", so to speak. If I wish to fill that popup dynamically, how do I accomplish this? Doesn't look l

Re: Menu Items of a Popup menu

2003-08-14 Thread Barry Levine
Klaus, Thanks. It was so straightforward that I missed it. Here's how I actually used it: on openStack put revSpeechVoices() into button "myVoices" -- now the user may choose from any available voice end openStack Regards, Barry On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 12:04 America/Denver, K

Re: addressing menu items (was: Yet another menu question)

2002-12-30 Thread Ken Ray
re* buttons; you create a group of buttons that have certain menu properties and they work like menus. On the Mac, these are "converted" to being "real" menu items in a "real" menubar, but the menu buttons are still there in their group; it's just that Rev has hidden

Re: addressing menu items (was: Yet another menu question)

2002-12-30 Thread Graham Samuel
At 11:50 + 30/12/02, I wrote: [...] I wanted to use this feature to change the text of individual menu items (for example to create menu item that toggles between "Show..." and "Hide...". Well, if I execute in the message box put line 1 of the text of button "O

Re: Check and uncheck menu-items?

2002-05-22 Thread Sarah
If you set the first 2 characters of the menu item to "!c" (no quotes), it will be checked. Use a loop to step through the menu items removing these 2 characters if they exist, then put them before the item you want to check. I think someone posted a handler for doing this a week

Check and uncheck menu-items?

2002-05-22 Thread Almesjö
How do you check and uncheck menu-items? thanks, /Niklas __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Check Menu Items?

2002-04-21 Thread Richard Harrison
on 4/21/2002 1:08 PM, yves COPPE at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > try : > > put text of me into tMenu > get the menuHistory of me > if char 1 of line it of tMenu = "!" then > repeat 2 > delete char 1 of line it of tMenu > end repeat > else > put "!c" before line it of tMenu > end if > set text o

Re: Check Menu Items?

2002-04-21 Thread Rick Harrison
on 4/21/2002 1:22 PM, Ken Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You need to do this manually by removing the !c when the menu item is > selected, and then putting it back in when it is selected again. > > Here's an example: > > on menuPick > put the menuHistory of me into tSelection > put me into

Re: Check Menu Items?

2002-04-21 Thread Ken Ray
Rick, > The !c checkmarks the menuitem, but I need to have this > done dynamically depending on which item the user selects. > The checkmark doesn't go on and off accordingly. Have I > missed something? Where in the documentation did you find > this little nugget? You need to do this manually

Re: Check Menu Items?

2002-04-21 Thread yves COPPE
> >The !c checkmarks the menuitem, but I need to have this >done dynamically depending on which item the user selects. >The checkmark doesn't go on and off accordingly. Have I >missed something? Where in the documentation did you find >this little nugget? > >Thanks, > >Rick Harrison > try :

Re: Check Menu Items?

2002-04-21 Thread Rick Harrison
m is the currently selected >> item? > > I haven't worked with a menu bar, but this is how I did it with > button menus. > > Put !c at the start of the line for the menu item in the text of > the button. There is no need to pad out the other menu items; > formatting

Re: grayed out menu items

2002-01-08 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 11:50 PM -0800 1/5/2002, Brad Allen wrote: >Sometimes I find the following menu items mysteriously grayed out, >even in stacks I've newly created. It doesn't matter which tool I >have selected. > >Object -> Stack Properties >Object -> Card Properties >Obje

grayed out menu items

2002-01-05 Thread Brad Allen
Sometimes I find the following menu items mysteriously grayed out, even in stacks I've newly created. It doesn't matter which tool I have selected. Object -> Stack Properties Object -> Card Properties Object - > New Card ...and many more. For instance, I often c