Thanks Richard, I rather suspected what you say might be true. I do however think the documentation of this feature is a bit of disgrace - really I could have dismissed the whole idea after one reading if the description was more complete and had better examples.
Actually I was seeking a way to do something very modest (to me) but which I can’t find a way of doing with a conventional menu item, which is either to choose my own font, or to add a small image to the text of an item - this is because (I believe) that the font Microsoft uses for Windows 7 menu items has quite a restricted character set. I was hoping to introduce the pi symbol (Greek lower case pi) into the text of a menu item, but this only seems to work on the Mac. This is all done with LC7, so Unicode ought to apply, not Mac-Roman… I am getting some help from RunRev on this, but I haven’t cracked it yet. Thanks again Graham > On 22 Nov 2014, at 16:33, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > Graham Samuel wrote: > > I’ve been using LC for a long time but I’ve never used a stack menu. ... > > I don’t know how I can use this to make the stack menu ‘look like a > > standard menu’ > > You can't. > > Stack menus were originally the only way to make menus in MetaCard, fine for > when it only ran under Motif in Unix but quickly became both tiresome to > create and often with an appearance that didn't match other HIGs. > > Dr. Raney remedied the issue in the mid-90s by create the menu subclass of > buttons, so we now have pulldowns, popups, and other common menu types that > more closely match user expectations on supported platforms. > > On OS X, the contents of menu buttons are rendered using OS routines so they > look and behave like standard menus. I hope to see the same on Ubuntu once > we get Themes. > > Now that we have the menu subclass for buttons, the only time using stacks as > menus are useful today is for non-textual menus, like popup galleries, color > pickers, etc. > > -- > 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
