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From: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: expanding menus
Message-ID: <730003@uswmrg2.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 20:23:41 GMT
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Organization: US WEST Marketing Resources Group
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rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

 >I am wondering how you implement the expanding menus that you see in MacDraw II
 >and Canvas, for instance.  I was looking at the resource file for MacDraw II
 >and noticed several things.  The spelling submenu which is part of the Edit
 >menu (id 2) has an id of 11.  The key equiv field of the spelling item is the
 >escape character (27) and the mark char is 11, the id of the spelling menu. 
 >This seems fairly straightforward, but how do you include it in the menu bar? 
 >_Do_ you include it in the menu bar?  I would very much appreciate an
 >explanation and/or some code.  Thank you.

You have most of it.  Now all you have to do is GetNewMenu(11) in your code and
do an insertmenu on it.  I suggest doing this after inserting the higher level
menu that you want the submenu to appear in.  A complete example of how this
is done is in the book "Macintosh Programming Primer" by Dave Mark and
Cartwright Reed.

==>Steve