Menu Builder is causing big problems in my stack!

[Sarah Reichelt]

> Has anyone else experienced infuriating, buggy behavior with the menu 
> builder?  I read a post by François Cuneo that describes part of the 
> problem.  The menubar I make (I'm developing in OSX) is improperly 
> shown as having Paste as the first item in the application menu, File 
> is empty, and Help contains Copy, I think.  What I made, using menu 
> builder, should've had only Quit in the File menu (which would be 
> moved to the application folder for OSX builds) and only Cut, Copy, 
> and Paste in the Edit menu.
I've never heard of anyone else finding the menu items so totally 
messed up but with OS X, there are changes made after you create your 
menubars and you need to allow for them. The last 2 lines of the File 
menu (a divider & Quit) are moved to the Application menu. Similarly, 
the last 2 lines of the Edit menu (divider & Preferences) are moved to 
the Application menu. If you don't have anything else in the File menu, 
it will appear empty. If you only have Cut, Copy & Paste in the Edit 
menu, Copy & Paste will vanish from there and presumably Paste will 
appear in the Application menu. With the Help menu, the About item is 
also moved to the Application menu.

Delete your menu and start again. Just accept the default menu and see 
what happens. Now you can start customizing it, but leave the items 
that get moved, in their correct places so that they and nothing else 
get moved.
>
> Also, the feature that shortens the stack to hide the menubar in OSX 
> is driving me nuts, running amuck and resizing the stack willy nilly.  
> One time it chopped off 22 pixels each time I opened the stack, making 
> for a nice disappearing stack.  Grrrrrrrr!
Yes, this is a long time bugbear. My current preferred option (& I 
don't know if it works on non-Mac systems) is to make a separate stack 
containing nothing but the menu. Do NOT check "Set as menubar on Mac 
OS" but in your main stack use a line like:
	set the menubar of this stack to "Menubar 1"
You don't need to tell it which stack contains "Menubar 1", it will 
find it if it is in a substack. Then you can edit the menus & their 
scripts easily and avoid the whole stack resizing business.

Cheers,
Sarah