Problem with Edit/Preference Menu Item

[J. Landman Gay]

David Burgun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I meant to say that the Apple Menu and the Help Menu are handled ok  and 
> work just fine, it's just the preference item that is causing  problems. 
> I've been looking at this on and off for over 5 hours now  and I just 
> can't seem to make this work as documented.

Sometimes you need to force a menu update. Try:

   lock menus
   -- do menu swap stuff
   unlock menus

According to Scott Raney, menu updating is *very* slow on Macs and the 
engine doesn't go out of its way to change the visual appearance unless 
absolutely necessary. If your script is resetting menu contents, the 
engine may not realize it. Locking/unlocking menus forces it to pay 
attention.

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