Yes, I believe the distinction is that these buttons are part of the mechanism to put menus in the OS X system menu bar, not regular buttons. Indeed, this is worth filing away. I have also entered a User Comment for the mouseDown event in the dictionary. Pete
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmb...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:16 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > > On 1/12/12 11:33 AM, Pete wrote: > >> Hi Peter, > >> Yep, it should work, that's what's so frustrating. Even weirder still > is > >> that if I send a mouseDown message to the File button from the message > box, > >> everything works just fine, just not when I click on the File menu!!!!! > > > > I'm pretty sure this is in the dictionary somewhere. On OS X, a > mousedown is never sent to a menu button, only to the menu group... > > I assume this is true if and only if the menubutton is part a a group. On > my system menubuttons that are not part of any group receive and respond to > mousedowns just fine. The part about grouped buttons being treated > differently is a good nugget to file away. > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.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