Help menu not showing title

andyh1234 · Post by **andyh1234** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:54 am

Just wondering if im doing something wrong!

I have a menubar, Rev says the last title item should be 'Help', no problem.

The menu loads just fine in OS X, and the about entry shifts as it should to under the application title.

However, in windows the 'Help' title doesnt show. The menu is there, if you go to the one before it and drop that down, then move to the right the help menu appears, but the title is simply not there.

I should have 'File' 'Edit' 'Options' 'View' and 'Help', but on Windows 'Help' is just missing!

Im compiling on OS X

Any ideas?

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:08 am

Hi Andy,

Do you have more buttons names "Help"? Try

show btn "Help" of grp "Menubar 1"

Does that.... help?

Best,

Mark

andyh1234 · Post by **andyh1234** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:13 pm

No luck im afraid.

I also tried

set the title of button "help" to "Help"
enable btn "help"
set the visible of button "help" to true

None seem to work. The Help menu text shows in Mac just fine, but not in Windows.

I then added another menu item before help to see if that might reset soemthing called 'test', but interestingly neither help or test showed, so its just the first 4 items that are showing on the menu bar, and the rest disappear. Does the menu bar have a width at all as its as if they are just running off the end.

Andy

andyh1234 · Post by **andyh1234** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:19 pm

Bingo!

set the width of group "menubar" to the width of me
set the left of group "menubar" to 0

The group wasnt wide enough for all the menu items, so they were disappearing!

Thanks for the suggestion Mark, it got the old brain cells whirring in the right direction.

Andy

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:52 pm

Cool, Andy! Great interaction also. I'm glad that it works now.

Mark