Menu shortcuts not working

[Martin Baxter]

Xavier,

You don't mention the tool selection in your problem report, but as you
probably already know, if the browse tool is selected your stack's menu
shortcuts should take precedence when it is the topstack in the IDE, so
what you describe could be correct behaviour. On the other hand if the
pointer tool is current, the RR menus shoud take precedence, if they don't
something is up.

Having said that, there are a number of bugs relating to menu shortcuts in
bugzilla and flavours of MacOS. I can't remember their id's offhand I'm
afraid.

I posted about non-working menu shortcuts to this list a few days ago, but
no-one had any comment to make about it. My problem is a bit different from
yours (I think) in that menu shortcuts in my own stacks don't work at all
on Linux, and don't work in windowsXP unless I set the menubar property
(which the documentation suggests is not relevant except on mac - um).
I didn't post to bugzilla because I don't have a recipe and AFAIK the
problem is either unique to me (i.e. I broke something) or intermittent.

In the bugzilla entries, people have suggested re-installing RR (which I
haven't tried) and/or resetting the preferences (which didn't work for me,
but might for you).

HTH

Martin

>Hi everyone,
>
>X's daily rant again ;))
>
>Menu shortcuts dont work for me on windows and before putting in a bugzilla
>(coz I didn't find a similar item)
>I wanted to know if others have had this problem or not...
>
>On windows, it seems that the topstack will prevent regular IDE menu
>shortcuts from working! I dont know if it is the case on Macs or unix...
>
>Examples are
>Copy paste shortcuts (with classic C or V and/or shift-ins) in the message
>box has to be done a few times before it works...
>Copy paste in general (script editor, fields, etc...)
>Control-M to call the message box doesn't always work...
>In the help stacks you are forced to use the revMenu to selected copy
>text...
>
>- Possible causes are because my stack already has an edit menu (which I
>think is normal GUI standards)
>- My stack doesn't use M as a command and no other button uses that as the
>accelerator key...
>
>Is there a rule for menu usage to avoid this type of conflicts?
> I found nothing related to it in the help... And Im not saying how often
>this basic OS feature is used...
>
>Bug will be posted tomorow anyway...
>
>TIA, cheers
>Xavier