Strange Option Menu behavior on Windows

[Pete]

I'm not using any characters that have special meaning in a menu.  Even if
I was, the problem would appear on OS X as well as Windows.
Pete

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> There is a way to escape special characters like that in a menu. I believe
> you are using characters that have a special function in a menu, and this
> is confusing the menu. I do not know why it is not happening on OS X tho'.
> Read up in the dictionary on menus and see what you can find.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Pete wrote:
>
> > I am experiencing some very strange behavior of a standard Livecode
> option
> > menu on Windows 7 - the same menu works perfectly on OS X.  The only
> > perhaps slightly unusual situation is that the option menu is in a
> > customised datagrid column.
> >
> > The option menu contains various comparison operators, such as +,<,>,
> > <=,>=, etc and its menuhistory is initially set to 3 which equates to
> the =
> > sign.
> >
> > The = sign is visible in the option menus on every row of the datagrid
> > except whichever row is currently selected in the datagrid, whether
> > selected by script or clicked on by the user.  On that row the option
> menu
> > appears to be blank.  However, when I click on it to show the options
> list,
> > the = sign appears and is highlighted but all the other options in the
> list
> > appear blank until I move the mouse over one, then the option appears in
> > the display.
> >
> > As mentioned this does not happen on OS X, just on Windows.
> >
> > I'm afraid this sounds like some sort of weird bug related to Datagrids,
> > option menus, and Windows but hoping someone might be able to shed some
> > light on it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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