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From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PopUp menus and Hypercard
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Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 05:43:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 05:43:49 1987
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In article <190STORKEL@RICE> STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) writes:
>I'm having trouble getting the PopUpMenu XFCN that I downloaded from Info-Mac
>to work. The file I downloaded contained the PopUpMenu pascal code by Andrew
>Gilmartin, and a file that contained the XFCN resource. When I try to use this
>function, nothing happens, and the function returns 0. I have another popup
>menu demo that works fine outside of Hypercard. What am I doing wrong? Does
>anyone have a sample of the correct way to use this function? Thanks  for the
>help.
>     

Scott, make sure you call PopUpMenu from a mouseDown handler and not a
mouseUp handler. The popup menu will only appear while the mouse is down.