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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: DA's and MenuBar
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.185410.16645@uvm.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:54:10 GMT
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From article <1991Mar12.234442.13474@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, by vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder):
> Can a DA have a menu bar?
> 
> I have a program that, when run as a PRG, paints and responds to its
> menu bar just fine.  When run as an ACC, the next meaningful action after
> MenuBar(...) is reaching for the reset button.  If I take out the MenuBar(),
> the rest of the ACC works fine.
> 
> Is this a GEM restriction, or am I just not holding my mouth right?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
> ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder
> vsnyder@jato.uucp

Yup, no DA can touch the menu bar.  However,try and get in touch with
Eric Rosenquist (SP?????) here or elsewhere.  His program, STeno does
what you want *very nicely* with a separate menu bar inside the window
(menus even "drop up" from the bottom if they can't drop down
properly).  Perhaps he could give you some pointers, or maybe even
release his code - when it's no longer a major selling point of his
programs 8-).  I'd love to be able to do that - even with regular 
programs.

ciao,
	Bob Pegram

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