On 3/19/17 10:03 PM, dunbarx via use-livecode wrote:
I actually never tried using a stack as a menu. So I just did. But in both
v6.7 and 8.1.3, if I create and name a new stack, add a single button to it,
and set the "menuName" of the button to the stack name, as soon as I click
on the button, LC crashes and quits.
Was it something I said?
More like something you did. :) I think you put the engine into a loop.
Back in the old MetaCard days, when I was just a tot and walked to
school uphill both ways (in a blizzard,) this used to be the only way we
could make menus. It's still the only way to build a menu that has real
icons or other non-text elements.
In the menu stack, you put buttons that do stuff, usually in mouseDown
or mouseUp handlers. Size the stack to about the width of a real system
menu and make it just enclose its contents. The buttons should be
edge-to-edge in a vertical column, no borders. Basically you are
implementing a hand-made menu object. When the user clicks on the
buttons in the stack, they do menu-like things, like calling a handler
in the mainstack or whatever. (Your test stack doesn't need any button
handlers if you're just testing the display.)
Now you need a way to to tell LC to display the stack menu, so you
create a new button on the mainstack. That's the one that needs the
menuName, so it knows which stack to draw. When the user clicks this
mainstack button, it looks up its menuName, finds that stack, and
displays it.
I wonder what the engine was thinking as it tried to menu-ify a stack
that was holding the button in the stack that was calling itself to show
the stack that was holding the button in the stack that was calling
itself to...
Never mind. You'd think there'd be a recursion warning though.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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