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Regards, Heather Heather Laine Customer Services Manager LiveCode Ltd www.livecode.com > On 25 Feb 2020, at 18:48, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Tore Nilsen wrote: > > The problem here is that when a group is set to behave as a menubar on > > MacOS, the target becomes the group and not any of the individual > > buttons. Therefore the script as it is written in the tutorial will > > not work, since the update of the menu will only happen if the short > > name of the target is «window». It will work if you remove the > > encapsulating if-statement. > > Agreed: the engine behavior is fine, the Lesson script is written in a way > I've never seen anyone attempt, and will fail. > > Are the Lessons also at Github? Would be nice if someone here has a moment > to update that. > > We should also consider adding a menu update example in the User Guide. Most > of the Guide's discussion in "Programming Menus and Menu Bars" is pretty > good, and there's even a useful example of handling menuPick, but no example > for updating via mouseDown. > > > > Removing the if-statement will update the content of the «Window» menu > > regardless of which menu you choose, provided that the script is > > placed in the group script. This way the user may well choose another > > menu initially, slide to the «Window» menu and be presented with an > > updated menu. So, while this may be a bug, the way around it is to > > write less code. If only all problems could be solved this way. > > Definitely not a bug, at least as far as original intent. Dr. Raney was quite > clear when I discussed this with him some 20 years ago that he had no > intention of jumping through the hoops that would be needed to try to treat > the OS menu bar as a collection of LiveCode buttons. > > A quick change to that one Lesson resolves the issue; extra bonus points if > we add that to the User Guide as well. > > Yes, if only everything else was this easy. I'd love to submit a pull request > to a Lesson to make it possible to play video on Linux from within LC. :) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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
