Appearance of menu items in version 2.6.B11 (and earlier)

[Richard Gaskin]

Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005,Klaus Major <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hi Wilhelm,
>>
>>>> I have uploaded three screenshots (taken with a camera) that show  
>>>> the overlapping of text in some menu items and also cut-off text:
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia/MCTools-B11.htm>
>>
>>
>> Must be an engine issue, since we did not change anything in the menus.
> 
> 
> 
> Problem solved, cause not fully understood:
> 
> When I set the "mcversion" of the mctools stack to the engine version 
> (2.6.5) - AND restarted Metacard after saving - the menu items appear 
> without overlapping and cut-off text like in my screenshots.
> 
> But it escapes me why a non-matching version number should cause such 
> overlapping and cutting-off !? This does not happen with engine versions 
> 2.5  or 2.6.2 (I reset the mcversions of these earlier versions without 
> getting adverse effects).

Curious. To the best of my knowledge that property is only used by the 
Home stack to determine whether to present its warning.

What happens if you modify the MC IDE's preOpenStack handler to set the 
mcVersion to the version?

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