<h1>Tech Notes</h1><h2>Appearance Pop-Up Menu Droppings</h2><p>There are a few things that your mother, now a tech at Apple, never told you...</p>
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<li>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.
<li>She never told you that Appearance pop-ups would leave little droppings in the window the first time that you clicked them.
<li>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.
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<p>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.</p>
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/*
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.