Re: Menu question

2014-11-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually, this is quite a non-standard way of accessing menus in OS X and in Windows. BUT… you *CAN* Right click a parent menu and do something with it in a standard Menu. I think I would venture down that path. Someone gave me a few handlers a while back where I was able to modify the standar

Re: Menu question

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Jacque, That's what I've been doing up to now but if there is a large number of stacks open and/or they have lots of substacks, the option menu choices get really long and hard to locate what you want. What I was hoping to do is simply list the main stacks when the menu is clicked so it will be

Re: Menu question

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/2014, 11:46 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Let's say you have a list of stacks and their substacks in a menu. For example: StackA --> StackA1 StackA2 StackB --> StackB1 StackB2 I'm trying to find a menu type that will items in the above format and allow m

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 9 Jan 2011, at 04:44, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > I've tried to use the Dictionary a number of times, but the text is too damn > small and there is no preference that I've found to make it any larger. Try BvG Docu then. Unless you're just randomly ranting, then please stay away from my stuff

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
That's one of the frustrating aspects of LC; I'm accustomed to rolling my own. I'd really prefer that LC stayed out of the way. Remember, my foundation in programming is Assembler. HC didn't have as many "hidden" characteristics as LC. It's almost impossible for someone like me who is only an oc

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
I wrote: But even if you do need arrowkey handlers, you can just check in the first line to see if the target contains the name of your menu group. Pass arrowkey if that's the case. If there are no menus on the card, the test won't be true and the handler will continue as it does now. That's

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/8/11 8:59 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Jacqui, Unfortunately, I haven't always used menubars; If I were to start over, something I don't intend to do at this time, I would. And I DO have Arrow key handlers for card navigation. It's one of my preferred ways of moving around. Unless you nee

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Jacqui, Unfortunately, I haven't always used menubars; If I were to start over, something I don't intend to do at this time, I would. And I DO have Arrow key handlers for card navigation. It's one of my preferred ways of moving around. I'm pretty sure the menuHistory property is going to let me

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi John, I'm pretty sure I can make this work. Thanks. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Jan 8, 2011, at 3:44 PM, John Dixon wrote: > > > > Have a look at menuHistory in the dictionary ... > >> Can anyone tell me what condition or property for

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/8/11 6:53 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Jacqui, Once a menu has been clicked on or opened using Alt/F (for the File Menu) I want to be able to navigate within the menu using the Up and Down Arrow Keys, or go to the next menu with the Right Arrow key. This is a common method used by Window

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks John. I'll see if that provides something for me. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Jan 8, 2011, at 3:44 PM, John Dixon wrote: > > > > Have a look at menuHistory in the dictionary ... > >> Can anyone tell me what condition or property for whic

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Jacqui, Once a menu has been clicked on or opened using Alt/F (for the File Menu) I want to be able to navigate within the menu using the Up and Down Arrow Keys, or go to the next menu with the Right Arrow key. This is a common method used by Window's users. I remember some time back that we

RE: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread John Dixon
Have a look at menuHistory in the dictionary ... > Can anyone tell me what condition or property for which I can check to see if > a menu is "open"; it's been clicked on or (for example) an option/F has > displayed the File Menu's contents? I have no idea what to look for in the > Dictiona

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/8/11 5:27 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Can anyone tell me what condition or property for which I can check to see if a menu is "open"; it's been clicked on or (for example) an option/F has displayed the File Menu's contents? I have no idea what to look for in the Dictionary. There isn't o