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From: weyand@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Weyand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TearOff menus in Think C
Message-ID: <14994@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Aug 90 20:49:11 GMT
Sender: weyand@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Weyand)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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I'm trying to use a tear off menu (which happens to be a hier menu as well)
in Think C with the Class Library.  I was hoping it would be as simple as
declaring a few objects and sending the proper menu and window IDs.  That
doesn't seem to be the case.  I simply want to take a standard text menu 
that I have and give it tear off capability.  I followed the example from
the Art Class project: that is I defined a director in the App class of
type MyTearOff and make the calls mostly just like Art Class does; define
a pane link it to the MDEF etc.  But what I get is a menu that is empty
and crashes when torn off.  In the Art Class project the tear off menus
hold icons and not text.  When I changed those menus to be just text I
got similar behavior (blank menu...crash).  It appears that the programmer
has to do some of the menuitem  management (selection, drawing...)?  

Does anyone out there have any code that implements a text menu as a tear
off? 
Any help/pointers are appreciated.

Thanks
Chris Weyand
weyand@csli.Stanford.edu