Metacard menu?

[Herve Proudhon]

In my experience, it is unfortunately necessary to thoroughly test your 
program in the three environments (native MacOs8 or 9, Classic under 
OsX and Osx).  Differences exists in :
    - menus (specially the first one, as you experiment)
    - program icons
    - information in the finder "Information" window
    - aspects of buttons, scrolling field and palette windows whatever 
LookAndFeel you choose. For instance, defaut buttons are very nice 
looking on OsX, but you cannot control several of their properties 
(colors, for instance).
    - some behaviours for pop-up buttons or window activation, 
applescript ...
     and certainly numerous others I have not discovered yet.

   Just an example during the first test of the new version of my 
nutrition shareware : the program closed at launch because "the 
filename of this stack" does not give (at least apparently) the same 
result in Classic and OsX.

Regards,

Herve Proudhon


>> Shari,
>>
>> You could write the code in the startup handler of your app that would
>> change the value in the Info.pList file, but that would only "take" 
>> for
>> subsequent launches; the first time, the user would see "MetaCard".
>
> That would be better than a permanent useless menu hanging out there. 
> Especially one that doesn't even have my program's name.
>
> I still wonder if it's just another menu btn, why not just insert code 
> to change it or hide it, as I would any other menu btn?
>
>>
>> The other way is to ship your standalone to someone with OS X and let 
>> them
>> fix it for you (until you get a copy of OS X of your own).
>
> Not planning to upgrade in the near future.  Too many of my programs 
> would break :-)

>>
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>
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