Jornada 720 and morphic menus-Help

Carl E Gundel carlg at libertybasic.com
Fri Feb 7 20:14:20 UTC 2003


On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Just4Fun wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to scroll down a menu popup in morphic? The menu is cut
> > off at the bottom of the J-720's screen. I've given up using it because
> > I can't get to all of the menu options. I think I must be missing
> > something--again... TIA  Rachel
>
> No, you're not really missing anything, Squeak's menus just weren't
> designed with 240 pixel-high screens in mind.
>
> On my J720, I reorganized the World menu to accomodate the screen
> size better, but there's no scrolling with the menu system like you
> mention.  What I've done on images without my menu mod is to make the menu
> a stay-up menu, then move it by grabbing it along one of the edges.  You
> could also use halos and just slide it to the make the choice visible.

I like to pop up the menu and then keep it up.  Finding the menu items I
don't want, I pop up the halo for each and delete each one.  The menu
resizes to fit.

Then I just save that image.  Whenever I start the image I get that
smaller menu.  ;-)

-Carl
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