Hi,
Thanks for the help! I must admit I was becoming slight despondent last night! All was failing around me. The main problem with the menubar handling is that if there is a bug, it seems to really mess up the IDE and it gets your stack into a state where it can't be access via the IDE.
I think what happens is that, a scirpt in the card stack thats sets the menu bar has an execution error, but for some reason this error does not get handled by the IDE, it looks like the script still has control and so the IDE never gets a chance to process the error and therefore is hosed.
I have a dummy stack that I use to hold the menubar called "MainMenu". All work fine if the "MainMenu" stack is visible, but if I try to hide it, things start to go very wrong!!!!!
Does the stack associated with the MenuBar have to be visible?
I have this in the preOpenStack handler
on preOpenStack hide this stack end preOpenStack
If I replace this woth a show this stack all works fine!
Hi Dave,
I use this technique too, but I never actually open the menubar stack.
In the stack(s) where I want the menu to appear, I just have a line in the preOpenStack handler saying:
set the menubar of me to "MyMenubar"
and it all works fine.
HTH, Sarah
Yes, it does, but if the stack is never opened, how does it know where "MyMenubar" is? Also, does this work if a Standalone of the App it built?
The way in which I have setup by app is as follows:
I have a MainMenu stack which is a Main Stack in it's own right.
Depending on the menu choices that are made, other main stacks in the same folder get "go to" to'ed! And they do whatever process is necessary. They call functions in the MainMenu Stack to control the menu back and maybe to switch it to another menu bar. Also to enable and disable menu items. That way all the menu bar handling is kept in one stack.
I also keep global objects in various cards of this stack and they can be accessed by any stack that was called from the MainMenu, this works fine of course, except that the stack does need to be opened. I guess I could just set it's screeen position to be way off the visible area which would probably work (I will try it), but it would be nice to be able to just hide it, since sometimes it's usufiul to be able to show it in the message box.
The problem I have is if i enter "Browse" mode and then open the MainMenu Stack if it's hidden I do not get the initial Menu Display, so I cannot select something from the menu and so I can't get to the Stack to be able to execute the code you have above! Sort of a chicken and the egg problem! I haven't tried this
Any suggestion on how to make this work would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any help Dave
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