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Thanks, Sparkout. I'm using option menus. I tested with a pulldown menu and it worked as advertised. The problem is I don't want to use pulldown menus, which are meant to be used in the menubar. I considered putting my row of menus (see attached) in the menubar but chose not to because for clarity I...

I haven't used menuItems much but I don't think each menu item has individual properties because they exist in a list. Try changing your code to look something more like this: CODE: SELECT ALL if demoRunning then disable menuItem i of button "someButtonName" else enable menuItem i of button "someBu...

Well, it's embarrassing I didn't see that. The Mac version working fine despite the error misled me into not looking for such a cause.

Alas, though: Fixing the oversight made no difference. The problem still exists on the Windows standalone.

I develop on Mac. Everything is fine with standalones of my main app for both Mac and Windows. I'm ready to "go live" on my website and publicize my app and website by email blasts and other means. Just one problem remains: The plan is to include Mac and Windows demo versions of my app with only cer...

I hate to be one of those "RTFM" dudes, but this is a good case where reviewing the User Guide on menus would help. The short version: To accommodate the differences between Mac and everything else, the last two items of an Edit menu should be a separator line ("-") followed by "Preferences...". On...

Oops, I should have noted that the problem just noted only occurs on Mac. Both menu items show on Windows.

I FINALLY have the menubar working properly on both Mac and Windows. A huge thanks to all posters for the helpful guidance! No doubt the process would have taken MUCH longer working without assistance. This forum is a really great resource! As long as I have this expert attention, though, a final (f...

Mac OS requires a File, Edit, and Help menu and those can't be removed. In my original post I mentioned that my custom menubar on Mac was at first working properly. Here's a closeup of the upper left corner of an earlier standalone, showing File and Help menus in the Mac menubar but no Edit (which ...

I appreciate the further input from Richard and Jacqueline. The info in your note and website, Jacqueline, helped me understand the processes better. I'm still befudddled by two issues, though: The first attachment shows Menu Builder status with "Set as stack Menu bar" checked. This is how a Mac sta...

Yes, in Menu Builder I had my custom menubar designated as such, and "Set as stack Menu bar" checked. As I mentioned that was working fine on Mac--in both development and run-time modes--but not on Windows. And now, out of nowhere it seems, that has switched! On Mac my custom menubar is being ignore...

Thanks for the reply, Craig. I work on Mac, so the graphic I posted is a mockup on Mac of what needs to be accomplished on Windows, namely, creating a strip at the top of the app window for the menubar menus, in my case just File and Help. So a Windows window needs to have greater height. I can code...

I'm aware of the difference in placement of the menubar Mac vs. Windows, and have come across that factor in reading through various LIvecode online user instruction materials, but it isn't clear to me yet how to deal with it. The "set the menuBar of this stack to <groupname>" command works fine. On...

Well, things just got a bit stranger, but in a good way. I had indeed restarted the Mac, without any change, but a second restart did the trick. Didn't occur to me that might happen before I decided to post. In the immortal word of Emily Litella: "Nevermind."

And thanks for your help, Craig.

In Standalone Application Settings/Copy Files when I click Add Folder... the dialogue at "Select a folder to add from:" freezes, including clicking Cancel. I am able to back out with Control-Period, but that doesn't help, because I can't accomplish the process. Sure seems to be a Livecode bug, but m...

Well, that's a bit embarrassing. I had gotten into the habit of not declaring local variables because Livecode allows that when Strict Compilation--which I knew nothing about--is not chosen in Preferences. It's a mystery how that got checked, but hey, there are plenty of mysteries in life. Thanks fo...