For those of you who've come lately to this, the problem was simple. How to add menus for both Mac and PC to an existing stack *without* ever resizing the existing stack.
As you all probably know, the minute you add a menu to a stack, it's height is recalculated whenever it opens on a different platform. The reason is that the menubar is 'on the card' for the PC, but at the top of the screen for the Mac. So, when viewing the stack on the Mac, the stack is automatically reduced in height by the amount of the menubar (thus screwing up my carefully rendered screen layout;-).
bummer, especially if you don't want this behavior.
So, Richard's idea was pretty straightforward:
set the editmenu property of the stack to true hide the menu group
So, here's how it works: When the stack is opened up on the Mac, because the editmenu prop is true, the menus appear at the top of the card and not in the menubar. But a little known fact (only Richard knows it apparently as it's not documented) is that the menus will appear in the menubar if the menuGrp is hidden! So, just hide the group and then show it if the platform is Win32.
Works like a charm...and no resizing of the stack whatsoever.
Has anyone got this to work on Rev 2.5.1?
When I try it, I get what you would expect - no menus because they are invisible, which is a shame because it is a very neat way around this problem which is driving me nuts at the moment.
I'm trying to do some resizing on a stack and I'd swear that the loc and rect of objects vary according to whether you are getting or setting them - but this is probably me just being paranoid :-)
Cheers, Sarah
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