Thank you Richard ! My standalone of "Exagofon" with English manual will be operational soon ! (Beta version) René
Le 25 oct. 2010 à 15:36, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > René Micout wrote: > >> When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an "About..." menu >> in the application menubar... >> How can I pick this menu item ? >> on menuPick theItem >> if theItem is "About..." then >> ... >> end mousePick >> don't work > > The LiveCode engine makes it very easy to create menu sets that substantially > conform to the HIGs on supported platforms, but difficult to do anything > non-standard. > > In most apps, there is a "Preferences..." it at the end of the Edit menu, and > an "About..." item at the end of the Help menu. > > That is, for Windows and Linux - on OS X the "About..." item appears next to > that OS's unique application menu, and the "Preferences..." item is the > second entry in that menu. > > To allow you to make one menu bar that works on all supported platforms, the > engine moves the last item from the Help menu (presumed to be "About...") and > the last item from the Edit menu (presumed to be "Preferences...") to their > appropriate place in the application menu on OS X; it leaves them in place > for other OSes. > > While your item may be named "Preferences..." (with three periods), once > rendered by the OS it becomes rendered as "Preferences…" (with an ellipsis), > and is identified internally as the argument to the menuPick message as > simply "Preferences". Oddly, this does not happen with the About item, > which is identified in the menuPick argument as you had typed it. > > So in your menuPick handler for Help you'll want: > > on menuPick pItem > case "About..." > answer "My Cool App"&cr& "Copyright 2010 by me" > break > case "Other Menu Items" > -- do stuff for those > break > end switch > end menuPick > > But in Edit you'll need: > > on menuPick pItem > case "Preferences" -- for OS X > case "Preferences..." -- for everything else > -- do prefs stuff > break > end switch > end menuPick > > I tried to post a bug report on that, but got an error in Bugzilla. ;) I'll > try again later. > > > IIRC the Rev IDE used to automatically write appropriate case statements for > items you build with its Menu Builder utility, but checking this just now it > seems it no longer does, writing only one generic menuPick handler with no > individual case statements in it, so you're on your own. > > It's also worth noting that the current LiveCode IDE does not write the names > of the "About..." and "Preferences..." items with the trailing periods or > even an ellipsis, so while the engine will at least render the Prefs item > correctly on OS X it doesn't render About or Prefs correctly for other > platforms. > > Perhaps someone who uses the LC IDE might consider flagging that as a bug. > > Here I've found it simpler to just roll my own menu bar, copying it into > stacks and adjusting its items as needed. Your mileage may vary; contents > may settle during shipping; items in mirror may be closer than they appear. > > IMNSHO, most of the complaints about making menu bars in Rev would go away if > this small handful of inconsistencies was addressed. The mechanism itself is > fairly robust and does a good job of automatically handling differences > between OSes, but is made to appear more complicated than it needs to be by > these anomalies. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
