On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:00 PM "J. Landman Gay"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote:
Peter Brigham wrote:
(I don't want a bunch of buttons just inside
the top of the window rect, I want the usual Windows menu placement.)
Does it choose whatever button group is visible, as long as it
contains
at least one "pulldown" style button? Does the group have to be at
the
top of the stack window? Do you have to specify in the Standalone
Builder somewhere in the Windows preferences which button group to
use
as the menu for the window? In short, how do it know, in Windows???
Please would someone explain, in small words.
Rev doesn't "know" per se that you have a menu bar on a Windows stack
(except in the case of Vista, as Ken mentioned, where setting the
menubar will apply the Vista colors and behaviors to the menus.) The
menu group really does sit at the top of the card, just under the
window
frame. If you position the mouse just under the menu bar and ask
for the
mouseV, you won't get "0" (which is what you'd get if the menubar were
outside the window), you get the height of the menubar group instead.
The menu takes up space on the card, and is part of the card contents.
Rev doesn't move the menu group on Windows OS or pay any attention to
its position. You could easily place a menu group in the center of the
card, and it would stay there. If you want standard Windows placement,
put the menu group at the top of the card (which is where Rev
positions
it when you use the Menu Builder.) The colors you choose for the
background and borders of the group can make the menu bar appear to be
part of the window frame if you like.
Menus on Windows aren't particularly special; they are just regular
groups with a bunch of pulldown buttons, and they stay where you put
them. Rev doesn't "choose" a menu group; you could theoretically
line up
several on the same card and Rev wouldn't care.
So to make it look like a standard Window app, I should place the
button group at the top of the window and put a gray/tan rectangular
graphic behind it, spanning the width of the card, below the
titlebar? And hide the graphic for the Mac version? Or will it be
hidden anyway when the top 20 pixels (or whatever) is clipped for the
Mac build? Sorry if these are naive questions but I'm clueless about
Windows and I'm trying to build my first standalone, I want it to
look at least semi-professional....
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
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http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig/
-- It's bad when you don't see the solution.
It's worse when you don't see the problem.
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