Tearing my hair out

[Marty Knapp]

I've been making Revolution stacks for a number of years, but always for 
myself, so rarely built standalones. And on those rare occasions when I 
did, I never used a menubar. So I've been working on a program for 
months and it's been going very smoothly, almost ready to release it, 
and one of the last things on my list was the menubar. So I inserted a 
menubar using the Menu Builder (and making absolutely no changes). Then 
all hell broke loose. My Windows builds work fine, but the OSX 
standalone crashes on launch. If I go back to my stack and simply 
uncheck "Use as menubar on OSX" and build a standalone it works fine. 
And if I start with a fresh blank stack and insert a default menubar, 
build as standalone it does work.

I've been using Rev 2.2.1 on my old G4 running 10.2.8. Of course I'd 
love to have the latest version of everything (including a new G5 quad!) 
but as I'm currently living off my savings . . .  I did downloaded the 
latest version and am running it in demo mode to see if that makes any 
difference, but I'm having exactly the same problem with 2.6.1 . . .

I also moved my stack over to my PC and build an OSX standalone there, 
tried in on my Mac and - crash.

With the menubar in place, I suddenly find myself with a very unstable 
environment - weird behavior, crashes, etc.

I did make a copy of my stack and deleted everything from it, inserted a 
default menubar and was able to build a standalone that would launch. So 
my assumption is that something is corrupted. It does confuse me that 
the same stack minus the menubar seems very stable, but I don't know 
what else to think.

Any thoughts before they take me away?


Marty Knapp