Re: [Pythoncard-users] global menubar

[<bra...@om...>]

I'm now leaning toward letting child windows each have their own copy of 
the menu bar; apparently this is standard on Windows and I should get over 
my Mac-centric feeling that it's "weird" for small child windows to have 
menubars. 

"Kevin Altis" <al...@se...> wrote on 03/21/2005 10:25:35 AM:

> On Mar 19, 2005, at 7:27 PM, bra...@om... wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm thinking I can get by with a tabbed interface for the main window, 

> > and go with small menu-less child windows for some of the individual 
> > forms. For instance, an Employees tab would show a multiColumnList of 
> > employees with search filters at the top. To edit an employee record, 
> > the user doubleclicks a line and an employee edit window pops up. This 

> > seems like a workable approach. I guess I need to take a look at how 
> > to implement the Notebook.
> >
> 
> A tabbed interface seems like the way to go. There is currently no 
> option to toggle the menubar for a window on and off in the 
> resourceEditor. The reason I didn't do that is if someone made a bunch 
> of menus and then accidentally got rid of them they would be pretty 
> upset, and we have no undo feature. Instead when you create your 
> background by using New under the File menu, select the appropriate 
> template, for whether you want menus or not.
> 
> The "main" menubar is always available to all windows. On the main 
> background, it is just self.menuBar so on a child window you would 
> access it as self.getParent().menuBar.
> 
> When you use a single menubar and child windows, one of the things you 
> have to watch out for is focus. Your main window will get the focus. If 
> you run with the Message Watcher you'll see the deactivate, loseFocus, 
> activate, loseFocus, gainFocus messages fire. Depending on what you 
> want to do, you'll probably need to use the findFocus() method or some 
> other method of tracking what is going on in your child window and 
> saving that information in an on_deactivate method which you would then 
> access in your main window menu item event handler.
> 
> ka