Re: Menu manager/journaling question

[jsimmons@cs.sunysb.edu (Jason Simmons)]

In article <1993May5.111726.5196@ifi.unizh.ch> gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (gudat henrik) writes:
>Since there is no need to record ALL possible events, I was wondering if
>journaling works if one avoids certain events.

I asked for information about journaling a few weeks ago - the general
consensus was that it was unreliable and should be avoided.

>The problem I have right now is that I don't know how to open a regular
>menu, wait for some seconds, select an item, then close the menu. When
>calling MenuSelect, the system software will take over control until
>something happens in the event queue - but I do not want that anyone has
>to do anyhting (it's for a self-running demo).

I don't know of a way of using MenuSelect for this, but you could write
a routine which draws a simulated menu.  It would just need to save the
background, draw a rectangle using the height and width provided in the
appropriate menu record, draw the menu item names, dividers, etc., invert
the selected menu option, and restore the background.

Phillip Vandry's HKMenus can open menus while the mouse is not being clicked,
so he probably has a method which might solve your problem, too.

Jason Simmons
jsimmons@sbcs.sunysb.edu