Don,
> I have created a shell with a menu and saved it. But when I go into the Menu
> Composer to add items to the menu, the composer will add 'untitled
> command's, but will not let me change their attributes or rename them.
>
> I have been messing with this all evening. Any help appreciated.
Are you getting any walkbacks? I assume not.
Are you using the menu editor or are you digging into the menu using the
PAI on the VC? The latter can be a little tricky if you don't have much
experience with it. It works, but I sometimes have to remind myself
that it is a generic aspect editor, not a customized GUI for menu editing.
You say it "won't let you" modify the attributes; does that mean some
commands are grayed out? If so, the next place I would look is any
#queryCommand: methods that might be relevant. Warning: debugging them
can be tricky, as they are called _often_. It's a longshot, but perhaps
OA has an error trap that is causing something to silently default to
disabled. If you want to find out what is happening in #queryCommand:,
the best way might be to use the global Trace and DebugView
(
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/DebugView.html).
As a variant on the Trace idea, you might figure out where it is (or
should be) going to do what you want and see how far it gets. Obviously
that can be an exercise in futitility if you are wrong about the entry
point.
Apologies for this last one: if working in the PAI, are you using accept
(control-s) when necessary? The ledger green fields are workspaces and
require an accept; the rest will update on Enter. As I said, appologies
if that's beneath you.
Sorry I can't be of any real help.
Have a good one,
Bill
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