[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] PopUp menus and Hypercard

storkel@rice.bitnet.UUCP (11/17/87)

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 Storkel
Rice University Macintosh Software Development
(STORKEL@RICE.BITNET)
     
Disclaimer: The views presented here in NO way represent the official views of
            Rice University, nor ICSA.
     

kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu.UUCP (11/18/87)

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.