Menu that does not show in Windows

[lohill]

I have an application that I created for my Mac and have just compiled a version for Windows. In the Windows version, some but not all of the windows show their menus. How can I go about making the menus appear on the windows where they do not show. The menus all look fine on the Mac. As I look at the the MenuBuilder I do not see any thing that looks like it might work. Any suggestions.

Thanks,
Larry

[Mark]

Hi Larry,

I'm not sure why this happens. Perhaps you lock messages while opening one of those stacks?

You can show and hide the menus by toggling the editMenus property in a script. This is equivalent to the checkbox "set as menubar on Mac OS".

Kind regards,

Mark

[jacque]

Is the menu group placed on every card of each stack?

[lohill]

Jacque:

Is the menu group placed on every card of each stack?

The application consists of a stack and multiple sub-stacks. Each of those have different functions and each of them has just one card. THe menu is the same one for each stack but consists of a menubar group on the card.

Mark's reply helped me find where they were hiding and I think I can make them visible now.

Thanks everyone,
Larry

[fgaudreau]

No need to read this post.
It is only an attempt to get this topic better indexed.
The solution is well documented above.

set the editMenus of this stack to true

Even after 8 years Google still could not help me to find this topic.
The following searches don't lead here, but should.

Livecode menubar disappears
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can't see Livecode Edit menu
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I lost the Livecode menu
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How do I show the Livecode menu?
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the Livecode menu is hidden

[bogs]

Since you said the solution was acceptable to the problem, I won't add to that, however...

Even after 8 years Google still could not help me to find this topic.

I have no love for Google search, but there are a myriad of reasons that this page wouldn't fall into the top pages of a search (of any search engine), and yet forums are the places most likely to encounter specific problems such as your search terms were structured.

If you happen to have a query in the future that you want to target a forum specifically for an answer too, try formulating the search like this:

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site:{forum web address}<space>{search term}

To use one of your examples below, in the search bar it would look like this -
site:forums.livecode.com Livecode menubar disappears

Quote around specific search terms that you only want to see and other search techniques all apply as well. The above applies to any forum related search I've ever tried in almost any search engine, this is what a similar search would show on Google -

...and suddenly it hit me!