Re: Some menus in window don't respond at launch

[Fred Kiefer]

Am 28.01.2011 06:14, schrieb Germán Arias:
> On lun, 2011-01-24 at 19:59 -0600, Germán Arias wrote:
>> There are some non based documents apps (like SimpleAgenda or
>> IMPreferences) where it's menus don't respond after launch the app. You
>> need move or resize or minimize and deminimize the window, to get a
>> functional menu. In other hand, there are apps (like Grr or
>> LaternaMagica) that works fine. But I don't see the differences between
>> these. Why some works fine and others no? I supposed that the problem
>> was that even when the window can become the main window this is not set
>> as the main window when get the menu. However, a -becomeMainWindow: at
>> launch the app don't solve the problem. Any suggestion?
> 
> Well, after watch the info.plist files of LaternaMagica and RSS, these
> seems that are using some document-based apps features. For that reason,
> currently I don't use anymore these apps to study this problem. Instead,
> I am using a simple app made with PC and Gorm. An example that display a
> window at launch with the menu in window. Here I discovered an odd
> issue. If the window in this example is configured to be displayed at
> launch time, the only way to get a functional menu (at launch time) is
> call the method -orderOut: in this window and then call -orderFront: or
> makeKeyAndOrderFront: or a similar method. This seems to be stupid, but
> works.
> 
> The most easy way to get a functional menu, is don't display the window
> at launch time. And call the method -orderFront: to display the window.
> This can be done for example in -applicationDidFinishLaunching:. But as
> I know, this is the same method that is called when gnustep load a gorm
> file. Then, why this don't work when you configure a window to be
> displayed at launch? The odd thing here, is that if you configure the
> window to be displayed at launch, and then call the method -orderFront:,
> this don't works. Why? Is like if the gorm file set up something wrong.
> But really I don't have idea.

Does this problem only exist for in window menus or do you have similar
problems when using standard menus? And which theme are you using? Have
you tried to switch of the theme?