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Subject:Re: Everything active on a dropdown menu bar From:Scott Turner <sturner -at- airmail -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 01 Dec 2000 14:01:45 -0600
John,
The programmers should be able to give you what you want. If not, then you're
stuck with the ways you wanted to avoid.
Scott
John Posada wrote:
> This question falls under the tricks that we accumulate through trial
> and error.
>
> I want to document, in my help, the dropdown menu bar in my
> application. However, just like any "normal" application, some
> elements are active (black text) and some are inactive (gray test).
> Depending on what is highlighted, acitve, being used, etc., it is
> impossible to have all of them black at the same time.
>
> Does anyone have any tricks that they've used, aside from either
> manual touchup in a paint program or multiple captures in different
> modes and cutting/pasting black elements over gray elements, to
> capture a dropdown menu where all the options in the dropdown appear
> black? Ideally, this process would also be used to capture
> right-click popup menus.
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