Replicate Help Menu

[lohill]

If I have a Help Menu in my main stack that I would like to have as the Help Menu for all my substacks, can you suggest the best way for me to do that? By 'best way' I think I mean the easiest way without damaging the other menus.

Thanks,
Larry

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Do you want to modify the help menu? This is just a button with return delimited contents, in a special group that has its menubar property set to the name of the group. Are you familiar with this methodology?

So all you need to do is to duplicate that group to any of your substacks. Or if you already have it, make sure the "help" pulldown is the same.

Craig Newman

[lohill]

Hi Craig,

My problem is that I don't want to duplicate the entire Menubar group in each substack. I only want to to take that Help button from the Main stack and use it to replace the Help button on each of the substacks without damaging any of the other buttons associated with the menubar group on those substacks. Does that make sense?

Larry

[dunbarx]

Larry.

Sure. Just take the contents of the "help" menu button in your mainStack, and load that into the "help" menu button in another stack:

put btn "help" of stack "yourMainStack" into btn "help" of stack "yourSubStack"

The contents of a pulldown button are the menuItems of that button. These can be changed at any time, including on the fly under script control.

Craig

[lohill]

Thanks Craig,

That was just what I needed.

Regards,
Larry