Jeanne,
Many smart people have posted to this list with stack resizing problems after adding menus to a stack used on OS X. The documentation does cover how menus are supposed to work.
While doc recommendations are perhaps better served through the RevDocs group at Yahoo, as long as you mention it the entry point into the docs is a bit obscure.
Apple's Inside Macintosh series broke things into convenient groupings: Menus, Windows, QuickTime, Graphics, Files, etc.
If the docs had such a topic list as the second-most-obvious thing (the first being a topic called "Getting Started with Revolution"), and then provided a good top-down description of how these elements are done in Rev, I think a lot of questions would go away.
There's a lot of reliance on searching the docs, but studies show search is rarely used, and even more rarely effectively, even in the best implementations (see the articles archive at uie.com). And of course our collective experience suggests that the current search implementation in Rev could do with an expanded index (and options for find whole vs. find partial, etc.). ;)
There's more on this in the RevDocs list, but in short it seems things like this subject might be more easily learned if the docs had an entry path something like:
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
------ ------- ------
...
Buttons
Fields ...
Files What is a Menu? ...
Graphics Types of Menus Using the Menu Builder
Menus -> Creating Menus -> Cross-platfom Menus
QuickTime Responding to Messages Mac tip: EditMenus property
... Menu Properties ...
...A good taxonomy will obviate the need for most searches. If the folks at DMOZ can come up with a taxonomy for everything, there must be a good taxonomy for the relatively small subset of things in Rev's corner of the universe. :)
About six months ago I showed you a group of stacks on which I was having the resizing problem; we eventually worked around it by setting the stack sized specifically in an openStack handler (putting the same code in the preOpenStack did not work). This is not documented.
The IT Works stacks I've seen had a different problem: the menu group was sized way too large, extending below the bottom of the menu buttons within it. If I recall on those stacks we set the menu group size to match the height of the buttons and the problem went away.
It's an unusual anomaly to have the menu group be so large. The docs mention that the crop-and-scroll will crop at the bottom of the menu group, but it would have been almost frighteningly prescient of Jeanne if she included a topic for the specific circumstance you'd encountered. :)
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