[DONE] Strange menu behaviour in Windows 8

[Kukulkan]

Hello,

a customer reported the following Problem to me:


On windows 8, the menu is display in a 'random' position, not align correctly (see picture).

On my machines, the menu appears directly below the "Ordner" menu. I can not reproduce, but customers complain...

I'm doing it like this:

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  ; do menu
  MenuTitle(LG(61))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_Configuration, LG(62))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_Exit, LG(63))
  MenuTitle(LG(144))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_OpenInput, LG(145))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_OpenBilldir, LGS(146, "APP_NAME", productName))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_OpenDonedir, LG(147))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_OpenErrdir, LG(197))
  If FileSize(globalEventLogPath) > 0
    MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_OpenEventlog, LG(198))
  EndIf  
  MenuTitle(LG(64))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_Manual, LG(165))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_Wizard, LG(65))
  MenuItem(#Menu_Window_0_About, LGS(66, "APP_NAME", productName))

LG() is the function to get translated language sentence. LG(144) is the word "Ordner".

What can I do?

Kukulkan

[True29]

perhaps you post a test code , or share the programm with us to test it.

[Kukulkan]

The program does only work if you have an account. It is quite complex. So, easy test is not possible. But I'm not doing any magic. It is the code above to create the menu. And that's it. The event loop simply reacts to the #PB_Event_Menu events. Never got complains before but now.

I try to reproduce this at one of the customers with a reduced repro. If I get more info, I will write it here.

In the meanwhile, any ideas?

Kukulkan

[Kukulkan]

Ok, customer reports that it also happens with this small executable:

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If OpenWindow(0, 100, 150, 195, 260, "PureBasic - Menu")

  ;
  ; Create the menu. The indent is very important here for a good lisibility
  ;

  If CreateMenu(0, WindowID(0))
    MenuTitle("File")
      MenuItem( 1, "&Load...")
      MenuItem( 2, "Save")
      MenuItem( 3, "Save As...")
      MenuBar()
      OpenSubMenu("Recents")
        MenuItem( 5, "Pure.png")
        MenuItem( 6, "Basic.jpg")
        OpenSubMenu("Even more !")
          MenuItem( 12, "Yeah")
        CloseSubMenu()
        MenuItem( 13, "Rocks.tga")
      CloseSubMenu()
      MenuBar()
      MenuItem( 7, "&Quit")

    MenuTitle("Edition")
      MenuItem( 8, "Cut")
      MenuItem( 9, "Copy")
      MenuItem(10, "Paste")
      
    MenuTitle("?")
      MenuItem(11, "About")

  EndIf
  
  DisableMenuItem(0, 3, 1)
  DisableMenuItem(0, 13, 1)
  
  ;
  ; This is the 'event loop'. All the user actions are processed here.
  ; It's very easy to understand: when an action occurs, the Event
  ; isn't 0 and we just have to see what have happened...
  ;
  
  Repeat

    Select WaitWindowEvent()

      Case #PB_Event_Menu

        Select EventMenu()  ; To see which menu has been selected

          Case 11 ; About
            MessageRequester("About", "Cool Menu example", 0)
            
          Default
            MessageRequester("Info", "MenuItem: "+Str(EventMenu()), 0)

        EndSelect

      Case #PB_Event_CloseWindow
        Quit = 1

    EndSelect

  Until Quit = 1

EndIf

End  

Therefore I believe it is not PB related. Do you have any idea what Windows setting might cause this? Customer says he only installed Firefox and Thunderbird.

UPDATE: He also just told me that Notepad is also having such problem. So definitely no PB Problem. Sorry for bothering here

Best

Kukulkan

[luis]

On win 8.1 a standard PB menu seems to work as it should. Your test code also work.

I can tell you on windows 7 this happened to me once (menus right aligned instead of left) after I had installed the tablet pen extensions to play with a Wacom tablet. There was a gui setting somewhere (I don't remember exactly) which made the menus go back to the right place. Don't know if it can be relevant in some way to your case.

Maybe you could try to check on his system the MenuDropAlignment key in the registry (google for it, don't know if it's a key valid for win 8.* too).

[Kukulkan]

Hi Luis,

Hey, that hint about MenuDropAlignment really fixed this thing! THANK YOU

Best

Kukulkan