[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Lague asks,
Does the menu builder move the existing objects down further when there are
more cards in the stack?
Rich,
Yes, yes, yes!
I believe you, but I haven't ever seen it. Is there a recipe? It should
be in Bugzilla if so -- that's pretty non-standard behavior.
Revolution doesn't have a real background, so background groups are added to
new cards. The menus are a background group.
If you add a menu to a single card stack, it will get replicated with each
new card. Works fine.
If you add a menu to some card in a multi-card stack (number of cards does
not matter, yours was 500, could have been 1,000 - or just 2) only that card has
the menu. Cards made after that card will have the menu. BUT on OS X entering
or leaving the range of cards with the menu will resize the height of the
stack - usually 20 pixels, but sometimes 40 or 60 or??? sometimes plus sometimes
minus.
You could copy the menu to each card in the stack.
This isn't a good idea. That would give the stack 500 copies of the same
group, each independent of the others, and would bloat stack size.
Instead, use "place grp 'myMenuGrp' onto this card", which shares the
same group among all the cards.
Don't add the menu group to the regular background group - trust me, much
misery.
What happens? Just curious, I've never tried it.
The best thing, in my experience the only truly reliable thing, is to reduce
you stack to a single card, add the menus, rebuild the stack.
I've never had to do that (and it would really set me back time-wise if
I did.) I use the "pushdown" handler posted on my web site, which has
always worked pretty well for me:
<http://hyperactivesw.com/mctutorial/rrcreateMenus.html>
I wish this was documented - at least, part of Jeanne's excellent conference
on menus.
This has been messing up new users for at least two years, it is time
SOMETHING is done about it!
People have been complaining about it for even longer than that. ;) But
personally I haven't had any trouble with it. Once I understood the menu
paradigm it made sense.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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