Neville Smythe wrote:
> My use-case was as follows. I have a pulldownmenu, not an application-
> wide menu, which applied to only certain selected items in a field.
> On mouseEnter, the selection changed colour, as a visual cue to the
> user that these menu items could be applied to the selection. On
> mouseLeave the colour changed back. At some point I inadvertently
> added a line of code to the mouseLeave handler which had the effect
> of killing the selection; this line was supposed to go into the
> menuPick handler. On my Mac the app continued to work as intended,
> but on a user's Windows PC the effect was to change a very minor
> cosmetic difference into a major bug because the menu no longer
> did anything. This was quite difficult to track down.
Thank you for that description. Just to make sure I understand this,
the menu button in question is on the card and does not appear in the
menu bar, is that correct?
I think what you're seeing there is a side effect of the special
handling LC uses for Mac menus, using OS routines rather than internal
routines which emulate menus from temporary stacks. On Mac it seems the
engine is suspending other mouse messages while it lets the OS handle
the popped up menu, whereas on other platforms the normal mouseLeave is
happening as soon as the mouse leaves the menu button.
At the moment the only solution I can think of is a bit kludgy, but
seems to work:
Use stack menus on all platforms, with a timer to track when the menu
stack has been closed.
It takes more to explain than to demonstrate, so here's a demo - feel
free to ask any follow-up questions:
http://fourthworld.net/lc/MenuMessaging.livecode
If you want to make the stack menu look less kludgy you could embrace
the kludge: add a preview pane or other elements that clearly show this
is a non-standard menu, but in a good way. :)
I sometimes use stack menus for graphical pickers. They're kinda nice
when you need 'em.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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