This is what REALLY SUCKS about RunRev! - was Menubar Help

[David Burgun]

This is what REALLY SUCKS about RunRev.

You build an application and after lots of blood sweat and tears 
caused by poor docmenation and lack of any support from RunRev Ltd, 
only to find that you can't get a simple thing like a preferences 
menu to work as documented. I've been trying to get this simple thing 
to work for most of the day. Any benefit gained in terms of 
development by using RunRev totally gone because a simple thing like 
a preference menu item won't work!!!!!

The thing that gets my goat is the if I change the prefrences menu 
item to "PreferencesXXX", a dialog appears tell me that this item 
will not not be moved to the Application menu! What a Croc! It doesnt 
get moved anyway!!!

The really infuriating thing is that there is absolutely nothing you 
can do to even try to troubleshoot it given the poor state of the 
documentation, so you are left at the mercy of the good people on 
this list.

Sorry for the rant but upagainst a deadline and I felt it just needed 
to be said!

All the Best
Dave

>Hi,
>
>Well after doing a load of searching I found some documentation on 
>the menu bar. I am running under MacOS X. I did as the docs say and 
>setup an Edit Menu with the last two items set to:
>
>------------------
>Preferences
>
>However when I run the App under the IDE, the last two items of the 
>Edit Menu have NOT been deleted. There is a Preferences Item in the 
>application menu, but it is Disabled. I can select Preferences from 
>the Edit menu and it works ok.
>
>I have done the same for the About this Application menu Item, but 
>in this case the last two items of the Help Menu DO get deleted and 
>the the "About XXXXXX" item is Enabled in the Application Menu and 
>if I select it works!
>
>Does anyone have any clue how to make this work correctly under MacOS X????
>
>Thanks in Advance.
>All the Best
>Dave