I have noticed that if you set the text of a menu button without setting the label, the label becomes the first line in the text. It may only do this on a Mac though.
I will try with a new stack. There may be something in mine preventing it from working. Who knows? Bob S > On Jun 8, 2018, at 13:05 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > I'm pretty sure this is a bug. If I set the label of a pulldown menu > > button where the label was empty before, the button does not display > > the label. I checked the property inspector, and the label is indeed > > set, but the label does not display until I interact with the button > > and actually select the menu choice. > > > > Setting the text, then setting the label or even the menuHistory does > > not suffice to display the menu label. Bug? Expected behavior? It > > seems to work with every other menu button type. > > Setting the text of a pulldown menu should not change that object's apparent > label. In any app, note the menu bar menus: items in a menu may change, but > those changes do not change the name of the menu in which they appear. > > As for the label property itself, yes, one of the wonderful things about LC > is the ability to set object name and display label separately, so we can use > names that have mnemonic value in our code while providing a graceful > experience for the user. > > But FWIW that seems to work here (v9, Ubuntu). > > I've never seen it do otherwise. > > Recipe? > > -- > Richard Gaskin _______________________________________________ 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
