Eureka! That works. So the Menu Builder is in the same doghouse as the Geometry Manager...
Thanks a million, Jerry On Aug 18, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Kay C Lan <[email protected]> wrote: > There is something flaky with the Menu Builder > > If you watch the Menu Buider you'll see for Menu Items it simply puts an > open bracket '(' before the Item Name. Why this is making the name > disappear and not come back I don't know, BUT if you manually or via script > simply add or remove the '(' the Item Name will gray as expected; at least > it does for me LC 6.1.1 rc 2 OS X 10.8.4 > > HTH > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jerry Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In all my time with LC, I've never used menus - until now. I'm having some >> trouble getting the hang of it. I'm using LC Community 6.1.0 on OSX 10.8.4 . >> >> I'm simply trying to add a menu of my own to the mac menu bar with a >> disabled item. I have made one with the Menu Builder in a new empty stack. >> When I tick the "Disabled" box of an item using the Menu Builder, I'd like >> to see it "grayed-out" in the menu when its pulled down. Instead, its >> simply empty white space. >> >> I have tried setting the text colors of the button that is the menu, using >> the Project Browser but it doesn't seem to change anything. >> >> What am I missing? Pointers to documentation gratefully accepted. >> >> Cheer, >> Jerry >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
