[futurebasic] RE: [FB] Menus Not Always Working

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From: Chris.Young@...
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:27:30 -0600
On a related note, I would recommend checking the MDEF ID with ResEdit 
on all of your project menus. I used to get this with some menu 
resources that I was using for popup menus in a PG project. The MDEF ID 
would get corrupted, and would exhibit strange problems.

Chris Young

On Friday, March 24, 2000 1:04 AM, David.Cottrell@... 
[SMTP:David.Cottrell@...] wrote:
> >>  >>I've run into a problem with the menus not working properly. 
Most of the
> >>  >>time when I select something from the menu bar, the menu 
highlights but
> >>  >>nothing happens.
> >>
> >>  >I had a similar problem a few years ago as the result of more 
than one
> >>  >HandleEvents within the program.
> >
> >
> >Most of the time, this comes from a bad MDEF. It can happen if you 
...
> >
> >Save an installed menu resource
> >CALL GETMENU more than once on a single menu
> >CALL DISPOSEMENU without calling DELETEMENU
> >Overwrite memory at the location where the menu resides
> >Insert an incorrect MDEF id using ResEdit
> >
> 
> Can I get some clarity on this.
> 
> Is it ok to call GETMENU on otherbeforemenu events or do the menu 
> handles need to be saved as globals?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
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