How do I set up an'About' menu in stand alone?

[FourthWorld]

If I replace the "send" commands with "answer" commands it all works, so it would appear the problem isn't in the menu but perhaps in either the stack receiving the message or not being able to find that stack.

You may want to add a check for "the result" after the line that's failing to see if there's an error message there, e.g.:

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case "About"
send "ShowStack" to stack "About Quotes"
put the result
break

[OzSanta]

G'day Richard.

First of all, thanks for taking the time to try my problem out.

Second, I put in a 'the result' statement, with no result. The 'About...' menu does not respond in any way on my iMac. I still think it's boiling down to my graphics card, which appears to cause Finder hassles.

I'm also having problems with this site, in that when clicking on any of the insertion buttons ex 'B', I get no response. Graphics Card again ????

Regards

Santa

[OzSanta]

G'day all

I believe I've partly solved the problem, Someone, in their infinite wisdom, has replaced the normal Ellipsis with three full stops in LiveCodes 'About…' menu .

I tried Klaus's suggestion of putting in an 'answer pItemName' and it trapped 'About...', however on using this...

on menuPick pItemName
if pItemName = "About…" then # ellipsis, fails
send "ShowStack" to stack "About Quotes"
exit menupick
end if
if pItemName = "About..." then # 3 full stops, works
send "ShowStack" to stack "About Quotes"
exit menupick
end if
switch pItemName
case "Quotes Guide"
send "ShowStack" to stack "Guide"
break
case "About Quotes"
send "ShowStack" to stack "About Quotes"
break
case "About"
send "ShowStack" to stack "About Quotes"
answer the result
break
end switch
end menuPick

I wouldn't mind betting that one programmer is looking for an 'About…' with ellipsis to replace the 'About…' menu item with the last help menu item, and someone else has used 'About...' (3 full stops') in the Menu.

Damn carelessness!

Regards

Santa

[FourthWorld]

If you used a switch block you could have both the ellipsis and full-stop versions fall through to the same code.

[Klaus]

Hi Santa,

Second, I put in a 'the result' statement, with no result. The 'About...' menu does not respond in any way on my iMac. I still think it's boiling down to my graphics card, which appears to cause Finder hassles.

hm, don't you think it MIGHT be possible that your "ShowStack" handler is causing trouble?

Your menupick handler DOES WORK in general, otherwise you would not have seen the "answer"
dialogs with the name of the picked menu item!

I'm also having problems with this site, in that when clicking on any of the insertion buttons ex 'B', I get no response. Graphics Card again ????

Yes, obviously!
No, just kidding, fixing the broken FORMATTING buttons here in the forum is on the TODO list of RunRev!

Here a short version of your last script like Richard recommended:

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on menuPick pItemName
  switch pItemName
    case "About…"
    case "About..."
    case "About Quotes"
    case "About"
      send "ShowStack" to stack "About Quotes"
      break
    case "Quotes Guide"
      send "ShowStack" to stack "Guide"
      break
  end switch
end menuPick

Best

Klaus

[OzSanta]

G'day all

Thanks for the short version of the menupick handler Klaus, I hadn't realized that multiple cases could be used before each break.

No, I DON'T think my menuStack handler is a problem, it works flawlessly once you use 'About...' with 3 full stops.

Regards

Santa

[Klaus]

Hi Santa,

No, I DON'T think my menuStack handler is a problem, it works flawlessly once you use 'About...' with 3 full stops.

ah, OK, sorry, that was not too clear to me...


Best

Klaus