Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-27 Thread dfepstein
This suggestion is late and perhaps obvious, but FWIW: If the task of adding a menubar to a whole bunch of cards is onerous, it may be worth considering bringing the card contents to the menubar.  That is, create a viewer (or even editer) stack that includes the menubar, and faux-navigate

Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-27 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/1/27 J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: Thanks. It won't work for my stacks, they have too many cards each. When you copy a menu to a stack, you also have to place it on each card. Right now I have a pre-placed menu on each card, and have duplicated the menu for each stack, which I

Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-27 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/1/27 zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.com: I missed something here. I have to do some test to illuminate my mind. Okay I'm back. As expected I've illuminate my mind however maybe by shadow... This would be the solution I would implement to solve the problem. But it requires that the cards

Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-27 Thread Ron
Hi Jacque You are right about your approach because you are using multiple cards on one window. In my case I had multiple windows in the same app. So, like you, I used empty buttons, a single backscript and one menupick handler. But because there are different windows, I switched to

Windows menu bars

2010-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
I need to open multiple documents that share the same menu bar. On Mac I can just set the default menubar. What do most of you do for Windows? I'm not too keen on putting up a toolbar like Rev does. Is there any other way? I think the answer is no but maybe some of you have an ingenius

Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-26 Thread zryip theSlug
2010/1/26 J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: I need to open multiple documents that share the same menu bar. On Mac I can just set the default menubar. What do most of you do for Windows? I'm not too keen on putting up a toolbar like Rev does. Is there any other way? I think the answer

Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
zryip theSlug wrote: Here is what I could do to have this menu in each of my documents. This is purely theoretical. 1) Creating of a substack in my project (as a kind of library) where I could create the main menu 2) Creating a button with some script to handle my menu bar. 3) Creating a

Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-26 Thread Ron
Jacque I was hoping for a better answer from someone as well. I ended up doing what you did in a similar situation. If its not too late, don't forget about the advantage of behaviors when adding all those menus. Maintaining one menuset and then parentscripting all the others has saved me

Re: Windows menu bars

2010-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ron wrote: If its not too late, don't forget about the advantage of behaviors when adding all those menus. Maintaining one menuset and then parentscripting all the others has saved me lots of time when I need to change something in one of the menus. What I've done is to have zero scripts in