Hi Ian
> I am writing an app where we want to dynamically build menus at runtime
> from scratch. The books I have consulted on the issue seem to indicate
> that this isn't possible, but they don't exactly say that.
yes and no - until Palm OS 3.5 dynamic menu creating is not (legally) possible
> I have found that I could build a menu by creating a MenuBarType struct, filling it
> all in, calculating all the sizes and then feeding it into a
[...]
this method may work or not, especially with new Palm OS versions.
generally you should handle the system structures as private and not accessible.
if you have only a few different menues, the way to do it is to create a menu resource
for each menu, and change the displayed menu.
or you could restrict your app. to >3.5 and use the dynamic menu functions.
by(e)
Stephan
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