[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Displaying a about box from the application menu

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From: Robert Covington <artlythere@...>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:29:30 -0400
On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 05:43  PM, Brian Heibert wrote:

> I am trying to get the application menu to display my window (the 
> about box)
> What am I doing wrong?   I know I haven't developed a real about box 
> yet, I
> am just doing window #355 , PRINT "About" to test the menu handler
>

In your setup code try :

APPLE MENU "About Brian's App..."

then

Select MenuID
case _AppleMenu
Select itemID
case 1
WINDOW #355
PRINT "About"

end select
End Select

rc

>
> LOCAL FN doMenus
> menuid = Menu(_menuID)
> itemid = Menu(_itemID)
> Menu
> LONG IF MenuID = 255 and itemID = 1
> WINDOW #355
> PRINT "About"
> DO
> UNTIL MOUSE(_down)
> END IF
> END FN
>
> ON MENU FN doMenus
>
> Do
> HANDLEEVENTS
> UNTIL 0
>
> Brian
>
> PS: I am using OS X 10.3.5
>
> --
>