Are you trying to construct a stack menu? That is, are you laying out a stack
that will pop up when you right-click on something? Are you aware that there
are other ways of popping up a contextual menu that leave all the formatting to
the engine and the operating system? You really only need a stack menu if you
explicitly need it to look and operate differently from your ordinary
contextual menu. I have a pop-up contextual menu button and script for a
classic contextual menu that makes calling the popup a one-line affair -- put
popChoose("right", "left","center") into userChoice. If you're interested email
me and I'll send it to you.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On May 9, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> I've never built a context menu up to now, and I'm struggling a bit. I have
> made it work with the aid of the LC docs, but my popup doesn't look exactly
> like a conventional menu. I need to know which font, style and size are
> needed, and the exact spacing (the size of the underlying buttons and the
> text margins). As this is a cross-platform desktop app, I need to know these
> for both Mac and Windows. Here the LC docs don't help AFAICS. Of course I can
> do it by experiment but there are a heck of a lot of fonts.
>
> Can anyone who's already done it tell me exactly how to configure context
> menus to look like native controls?
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
>
> PS - the LC docs tell one to set the individual buttons' autoArm and
> armBorder properties to true. I had to do this with the LC Message Box
> because I couldn't find these properties in any other way. I naively thought
> that in LC 6.0.1 you can reveal (and therefore set) all properties of an
> object. Was I wrong?
>
>
>
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