Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pyramid!voder!apple!darin
From: darin@Apple.COM (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Menu Manager Bug...?
Message-ID: <14546@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Jul 88 11:41:26 GMT
References: <5005@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: darin@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Darin Adler)
Organization: Apple
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In article <5005@husc6.harvard.edu> singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
> ...
>
> If the window's name begins with a dash (-), the entire menu item is
> a gray line. This would be correct behavior if the string was passed
> to AppendMenu, but NOT for sSetItem. Inside Macintosh (Volume 1, page 357)
> says:
> 
> 	"SetItem changes the text of the given item to itemString. It doesn't
> recognize the metacharacters used in AppendMenu; if you include them in
> ItemString, they will appear in the text of the menu item."
> 
> ...
>
> Is this a new bug, a "feature", or am I completely off base?

If you read the section for AppendMenu you will see that the hyphen (-) is
*not* one of the meta-characters in the meta-character chart. It is mentioned
earlier in the paragraph:

	"If it begins with a hyphen (-), the item will be a dividing
	 line across the width of the menu."

So this is just a misunderstanding (which might have been averted if the above
had been repeated in the section describing SetItem).
--
Darin Adler					       AppleLink: Adler4
UUCP: {sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual}!apple!darin	  CSNET: darin@Apple.com