Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/14/2015 5:04 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: OK, so the dictionary*is* wrong about menubar being only on mac? Interesting. I could be (probably am) wrong. Like you, I work mostly on Mac and only test on Windows. Since I've never developed for Windows alone (always cross platform) I have never tr

Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/14/2015 3:16 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I seem to remember you have to put your mouse handlers in the menubar group not the menu buttons? Right, mostly because of the Mac system menu bar. The item selected is only returned to the group. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyper

Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:34 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/14/2015 12:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight. >> > > Advice I received early on is that if your stack will have menus, develop > for Windows first (even if you're on a

Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread Peter Haworth
I seem to remember you have to put your mouse handlers in the menubar group not the menu buttons? There used to be a problem with that because you couldn't tell which menu button had been clicked, or perhaps that was just on OSX. It's been a while since I used menubars though so it may have chang

Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/14/2015 12:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight. Advice I received early on is that if your stack will have menus, develop for Windows first (even if you're on a Mac.) It's good advice. It allows you to see how the layout should

Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread Mike Kerner
annd, there's me, not bothering to understand the entire message. Going back to my hole, now. On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Mike Kerner > wrote: > > > On the Mac, instead of being in the top left of your window, it will > > display a

Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > On the Mac, instead of being in the top left of your window, it will > display at the top of your display. > I've got that :) I primarily develop on that, and only have windows as a leftover on a FreeBSD laptop. But I'm trying to gbet the

Re: Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread Mike Kerner
On the Mac, instead of being in the top left of your window, it will display at the top of your display. On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight. > (Hey, I'm not a GUI kind of person. My general reaction is that

Getting use of menus straight

2015-03-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight. (Hey, I'm not a GUI kind of person. My general reaction is that they're for displaying arrays of xterms . . . ) So for mac, I set the defaultMenuBar, which can hang around in the main stack. For substacks with custom menus, I