Well I've spent about 4 hours trying to get consistent cross-platform
behaviour for two small projects without success! I've looked
through the lists for help about menus and tried various suggestions
but without success.
I have a simple menu structure with a "File Edit Help" menu bar. All
I want is the following:
1) in the development environment on my Mac (OS X 10.3.9, Rev 2.6
build 108), I want to see proper Mac menus (at the top of the screen)
with my stack window showing just the objects I expect and no sliding
or cropping and no blank space at the top where a Win menu bar would
be displayed
2) in the standalone Mac app, I expect the same as above
3) in the standalone Win app, I expect the normal Windows behaviour,
i.e. the window is slightly higher with the menu bar at the top and
the remaining objects slid down the screen to accommodate it
It seems that instead of the above I can get the following, depending
on what tricks I try:
a) standalone Mac app is fine but standalone Win app has no menu bar
b) standalone Win app is fine but standalone Mac app has lost the
bottom of its window
c) standalone Win app is fine but standalone Mac app has Win-sized
window with a blank space at the top where the menu bar would be and
everything else moved down
The only way I've had some limited success is if I explicitly fix the
window height in my preOpenStack handler. Not only is this yuk, it's
not fully reliable either!
I have tried completely removing and remaking the menus (several
times), but nothing works consistently.
Also, how come both Mac and Win apps end up with a 'Quit' option in
the File menu when the Win standard is 'Exit'? Of course I can fix
this with code, but why should I have to, surely you should be able
to expect standard behaviour for each platform?
In the end I got most of what I want using the following script
inside my preOpenStack handler (not nice or obvious but it does
work!):
if the platform is "MacOS" then
if the environment is not "development" then
put the height of this stack into theHeight
set the editMenu of this stack to false
show group menuBarName
set the height of this stack to theHeight + the height of group
menuBarName
end if
else
set the editMenu of this stack to false
put the height of this stack into theHeight
show group menuBarName
set the height of this stack to theHeight + the height of group menuBarName
end if
I really can't believe how unreliable and torturous it is trying to
get standard cross-platform menus. Every time I start a new "short
project", I spend more time trying to sort out the menus than I do
completing the rest of the project! It's now got to the point where
I'm considering "jumping ship" to REALbasic for small projects has
I'm so fed up with this fight every time - it's making small projects
uneconomical with Rev.
Please can someone tell me how to get some reliable sanity into the
menu process!
Peter
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Peter Reid
Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK
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