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>>It works fine here. Could you post your script?

on mousedown -- in menubar group script
get the short name of the target
if it is "File" then
--enable and disable File menuitems
else if it is "Edit" then
--enable and disable Edit menuitems
end if
end mousedown

The problem, I think, is ...

>>You probably want to read about the menuPick message in the docs.

I am using the menupick messages. The reason I also use mousedown handlers is to customize the menuitems (enable/disable, checkmarks) each time the user clicks on a menu.

--Grazer[/quote]

I am an experienced hypercard programmer, but very new to Revolution. I have nearly completed my first software project and am now experimenting with the standalone builder and the menu builder.

When I first moved my menu to the Mac menubar I found that my mousedown handlers in each button didn't ...