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"Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:43 pm
by Tony
In the Mac version of LiveCode, would it be possible to get the "o" in "Hide others" in the LiveCode menu capitalized? Revolution/LiveCode is the only Mac application I've ever seen that doesn't have both words of that menu item capitalized.

Tony

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:03 pm
by Klaus
Hi Tony,

I am not sure we/the mothership can do anything about this, since these menuitems like "Hide XYZ" etc. are supplied by the underlying OS, macOS here.
No problems here with a german OS however.

You can create a bug report here: http://quality.runrev.com


Best

Klaus

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:17 pm
by Tony
Thanks, Klaus. I'll do that.

I have always assumed (based on little knowledge of how these things work) that, as you suggest, the OS controls how that menu displays. Which is why it has always perplexed me that LiveCode differs from every other Mac application.

Tony

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:42 pm
by richmond62
I wOnder why this shOuld be such a big deal?

RichmOnd.

JOking apArT . . .

as far as I know LiveCode doesn't care if you use upper-case or lower-case letters anyway.

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:28 pm
by mwieder
As Klaus mentioned, that's the operating system at work. There's nothing in LiveCode that inserts that menu item.
As to why it's showing up lowercase, I don't have a clue.

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:46 pm
by jacque
If I remember right we are allowed to adjust the Preference item, I wonder if that's interacting adversely.

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 7:17 pm
by FourthWorld
IIRC only the application menu and the Help menu contain automatically generated items. At least in my own apps I've been handling the Window menu myself - is there a way I don't have to?

Definitely report this. Whether that item is supplied by LC or the OS it's wrong, not how other apps capitalize "Others".

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:29 pm
by Tony
I reported it.

It's been that way since the first version of Revolution I ever tried, 10 years ago (or more?). It would warm this old copy editor's heart to see it corrected.

Tony

Re: "Hide Others" in Mac version

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:34 pm
by mwieder
Well, waddaya know... turns out it was in the LC engine, not in the IDE files.

fix is on the way.

https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pu ... 2642d47d44