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From: brendan@claris.com (Brendan McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Pop-up menus and MPW scripts
Message-ID: <10910@claris.com>
Date: 5 Mar 90 20:00:35 GMT
References: <27526@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: brendan@claris.com (Brendan McCarthy)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From: nicky@cup.portal.com (nick john pilch)
>Has anyone else noticed that the horizontal displacement for the
>start of the text in a pop-up menu changed from 6.0.3 to 6.0.4? Text in a
>pop-up
>menu is now drawn about 2 pixels to the left of where it used to be. Those who
>coded their pop-ups so that the text displayed on their pop-up-at-rest bar
>corresponded exactly to what would appear in the menu when the menu was clicked
>find that now the text moves to the left when the pop-up bar is clicked. I
>didn't see this documented anywhere and it'd be nice to know why this was done.
>Try out the pop-up menus in the projector windows of MPW or the Set Tabs & Font
>dialog of THINKC.

Yes.  We've encountered this apparently problem too.  It seems that some 
bright engineer at Apple was playing with the system MDEF, saw the 2 pixel
horizontal offset, and figured that no-one would care if it was removed.
Now, our Claris MDEF checks which version of the system you're running and
draws the menu the same way the system does.  Thanks Apple.

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