...Something about metacard that really bothers me... domenu... domenu in hypercard is really important and convenient.
problem is: the menus in metacard don't match.
This is an avoidable and easily solved problem. It could even be solved open source. If rev or metacard promises to incorporate the hidden button with missing menu items I would do it open source as a fun project. So it could even be solved at no cost (presuming my scripting is up to scratch).
What do people think? I know the invisible button would not solve syntax like
do menu item 3 of menu 2 (or similar)
but I never used that syntax - and the syntax example i just gave could well be
buggy
- I always wrote doMenu "cut picture"
which would work using an extra invisible menu button with the missing commands
exactly as appearing in hypercard (and if someone else would supply missing
supercard buttons we could cover that too).
What do you think?
For doMenu the docs say:
The doMenu command is not implemented for all menu items. This command is included in Transcript for compatibility with imported HyperCard stacks.
This implies that only menus common between HC and MC are supported. I verified this by trying this in the Message Box:
domenu "create card"
...and got this result:
doMenu "create card" not implemented
So while I agree it might be handy to come up with a generic solution, doMenu appears to be hard-wired for a very specific and limited use.
Even if it did work, there should be no need for making invisible objects -- we could simply trap doMenu in the stack and handle it from there.
But one of the reasons MC is so darn fast is that it doesn't allow the overriding of built-in commands and functions (it cuts the token search space down dramatically). Fortunately, for the few cases where that might be useful it isn't hard to work around it:
For example, you could write a menuPick handler at the stack level and move your doMenu stuff there. That way you could handle visible menu items there and also makes calls to it from other scripts by writing:
menuPick "Menu Item Name"
...rather than HC's:
doMenu "Menu Item Name"
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