On Feb 24, 2017, at 2:00 PM, David Adams wrote: > I just tried it today in a structure built from the ground up in V16. On > Mac. The menu editor is buggy to the point of nearly unusable. > > Has anyone been using the V16 version of this tool without trouble? Or, > contrarily, are there already reports in about the problems? > > Quick rundown: > > * Very hard to attach a menu to a menu bar. Took a couple of minutes to > make it work. I can only get it to work by: > > -- Selecting menubar > -- Right-clicking > -- Saying to associate a menu > -- Picking one > > That seems to work, if you follow those exact steps each time. After I've > done it once, I can't attach anything else until I go through the whole > sequence again. In earlier versions, you could drag-drop menus into menu > bars if you were very fast. > > * Very odd behavior when trying to link a name to a menu item. The first > character that I type seems to disappear, and then the more I type the > weirder it gets. Drag-and-drop from the Explorer no longer seems to work. > The only thing that I've found that does work is to use the pop-up of all > method names (!) to select the method I want.
Welcome to the world of the 4D Menu Editor. It works, but it has problems. It is not the most robust editor window in the 4D Design environment. Same issues in v15, v14 and v13. Just figure out how to make it work and move on. I’m not sure it is even worth filing a bug report on the problems. I have one 4D structure that has corrupted menu bars. I know they are corrupted and screwed up. You can see it in the Menu Editor. I even gave them names “corrupt 1”, “corrupt 2” etc. Repairing with MSC does not fix the problem. The only solution I have found is to destroy all the menus and build them all over again from scratch. It’s a structure that has been upgraded form v3 to v14. Who knows when and how the corruption occured. Someday I will take the time to rebuild all the menu bars and eliminate the corruption. But for now I just live with it. Tim ******************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ******************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
