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Re: Zero children


  • Subject: Re: Zero children
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:05:45 -0500

on 02-11-12 1:35 PM, Eric Schlegel at email@hidden wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 09:39 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
>
>> I ask, because I find that I sometimes do get an incorrect report of
>> zero
>> children in the Apple menu (see my separate message about that), but
>> exposing that menu cures the problem.
>
> In this particular case, this happens because the Apple menu's contents
> are added lazily, so until you open the menu or press a command key,
> the menu has no contents.

Would this also be true of any application menu that updates its contents on
the fly? Like a Scripts menu that supports on-the-fly addition of scripts
when they're dropped into the application's Scripts folder? Or a menu that
changes its wording, or its checkmark, depending on the changing state of
the application?

--

Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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