On Tuesday 30 April 2002 01:09 pm, Martin Drautzburg wrote:

> I wrote:
> > I'd recommend not having visible submorphs outside your
> > fullBounds. Actually, I'd recommend not having submorphs at all
> > outside your fullBounds.
>
> So how would you collapse a menu ?

You mean like in, say Windows? Sorry, I wasn't thinking of menu bars 
in windows, but of independent floating menus.

The easiest way is to realize that you have two different pieces: 
there's the menu button itself that pops up/down the menu, and the 
menu itself. They shouldn't be part of the same Morph.

Changing the size of the morph is a no-no in most window layouts.

So instead, you realize that the menu is a different thing, and is 
actually a separate Morph owned by the world. And its 
morphicLayerNumber is low enough to be on top of whatever it was 
raised for.

Your menu button then just shows or hides the actual menu, in the 
appropriate position.

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