Ooooh good tip on locking menus! <where is that keepers file...> Bob
On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 1/12/12 1:01 PM, Pete wrote: > >> There's more than one menu I have to dynamically adjust so I need to figure >> out in the group's mouseDown handler which menu was clicked. I tried using >> the short name of me, the short name of the target, and the mouseControl >> but none of them tell me which button was clicked. How do I figure that >> out? > > I usually don't bother, though the "short name of the target" should work I'd > think. I just set everything all at once. Some of my menu handlers are fairly > long but they still run almost instantly. Manipulating menus is expensive, so > it's a good idea to lock menus before changing things and then unlock menus > at the end of the handler. > > on mousedown > lock menus > put blahblah into btn "file" of me > put somethingelse into btn "edit" of me > unlock menus > end mousedown > >> >> The other issue is what needs to be done for Windows. I think I'm right in >> saying that the mouseDown event will reach the menu bar group if there is >> no mouseDown handler for the button itself - right? > > Yes. Messages will pass through the hierarchy normally, so you get automatic > cross-platform behavior. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
