Tech Notes

Appearance Pop-Up Menu Droppings

There are a few things that your mother, now a tech at Apple, never told you...

She never mentioned that you would have to reset the ControlMax if you changed the number of items in a pop-up menu handled by a control.

She never told you that Appearance pop-ups would leave little droppings in the window the first time that you clicked them.

And she never, ever told you that if you fooled around with those girls from the wrong side of the tracks you might catch something that you couldn't wash off.

I can't help with the washing part, but I'm happy to offer a leg up on the window dropppings. Herein find a simple routine that will fixeth (I'm working on my culture) your Appearance poppers. Just give it a call after you build the button.

/*
 when an appearance pop-up menu pops, then goes away,
 it leaves trash in the window. this routine makes the
 menu recalc itself so that there are no window droppings.

 it's stupid, but it works
*/

local fn fixAppearancePopUpBug(buttonID as long)
 dim mH as handle
 mH = button ( buttonID ,  _FBgetControlMenuHandle )
 InsertMenuItem ( mH , " " , 0 )
 DeleteMenuItem ( mH , 1 )
end fn