menu builder not staying in one place

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nicoloose
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menu builder not staying in one place

Post by nicoloose » Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:06 pm

Good day,

I have searched the forum and have not found anything similar to the issue I am having but I am running Mac OS X 10.7.5 and LiveCode 6.1.1 and when I create a new menu bar using the menu builder, the menu bar shifts up and I cannot find it on the card. All my other form items also shift up. If I find the menu bar and I select it using the application browser, I can move it to the desired location using the arrow keys. If I then save the stack and navigate away from that page and come back to it, the same thing has happened.

has anyone else had this problem?

Rgds
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Re: menu builder not staying in one place

Post by BvG » Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:55 pm

This has to do with how menubars work, to ease cross platform compability. Unlike on other systems, on Macs the menubars are supposed to be shown in the system menu bar at the top. If you want a menu that does not do that, it's probably easier to make your own, not using the "menubar" property. To show a menubar, you probably want to use the "editMenus" property, look it up in the dictionary.
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Re: menu builder not staying in one place

Post by nicoloose » Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:00 am

Thank you. I have unchecked the "set as stack menu bar" and it seems to be behaving as I wanted.
Rgds

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