Bug in handling Help menu items?

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 27 04:53:29 EST 2004


--- Frank Leahy <frank at backtalk.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else had problems getting the menuPick
> message sent from 
> items in the Help menu in the MacOSX menubar?
> 
> I have two items in the Help menu, "Open Help
> Window", followed by a -, 
> followed by "About Photo Album" as the docs
> describe.  The "About Photo 
> Album" gets moved to the Application menu as it's
> supposed to (as does 
> Preferences from the Edit menu), and the only item
> left in the Help 
> menu is "Open Help Window".
> 
> All my other menu choices come through the stack
> menuPick handler, 
> except for these two Help menu items -- "About Photo
> Album" and "Open 
> Help Window".  There is definitely no intervening
> menuPick handler that 
> might be hiding the choices, and it doesn't matter
> if I add a menuPick 
> to the Help button, menu bar, etc..
> 
> Has anyone else seen this behavior? (I'm running
> 2.1.2)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Frank Leahy
> 

Hi Frank,

Did you get this to work properly ? It didn't give me
any problems when I tried to simulate your problem.
If not, have you tried to add a breakpoint to see if
the menuPick is sent and what the content of its
parameter is ?

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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