Form Designer wrongly placing Separator in Child menu

[Keya]

I'm just creating a very basic menu with a child menu, and separator bars. I'm only using the built-in Form Designer. Windows XP-32 using Purebasic-32 v5.31

The menu SHOULD look like this, where "---" is a Separator/Bar menu item:

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 Parent1
 ---
 Parent2
           P2 Child1
           P2 Child2
 ---
 Parent3

And the Form Designer correctly reflects how it SHOULD look ... (ps. why does the Form Designer use this different-looking 'generated' look instead of the actual look that appears when you Run it? im guessing for cross-OS visual compatibility, but anyway thats another matter!)


But when you press F5 to Compile/Run it, instead it is appearing as:

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 Parent1
 ---
 Parent2
           P2 Child1
           P2 Child2
           ---
 Parent3

Which looks like this:


The reason is obvious when you look at the code (simply "MenuBar()" is wrongly being put before "CloseSubMenu()" instead of after it in this case)

But there's nothing I can do about it because even if I change the order of the code, when I press F5 it recompiles the form, reintroducing the bug

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;
; This code is automatically generated by the FormDesigner.
; Manual modification is possible to adjust existing commands, but anything else will be dropped when the code is compiled.
; Event procedures needs to be put in another source file.
;

Global Window_2

Enumeration FormMenu
  #Menu_Parent1
  #Menu_P2Child1
  #Menu_P2Child2
  #Menu_Parent3
EndEnumeration


Procedure OpenWindow_2(x = 0, y = 0, width = 600, height = 400)
  Window_2 = OpenWindow(#PB_Any, x, y, width, height, "Menu test", #PB_Window_SystemMenu)
  CreateMenu(0, WindowID(Window_2))
  MenuTitle("File")
  MenuItem(#Menu_Parent1, "Parent1")
  MenuBar()
  OpenSubMenu("Parent2")
  MenuItem(#Menu_P2Child1, "P2 Child1")
  MenuItem(#Menu_P2Child2, "P2 Child2")
  MenuBar()        ;<--\------------------------------------- THIS SHOULD BE _AFTER_ THE NEXT LINE ("CLOSESUBMENU()")
  CloseSubMenu()   ;<--/
  MenuItem(#Menu_Parent3, "Parent3")
EndProcedure

Procedure Window_2_Events(event)
  Select event
    Case #PB_Event_CloseWindow
      ProcedureReturn #False

    Case #PB_Event_Menu
      Select EventMenu()
        Case #Menu_Parent1
        Case #Menu_P2Child1
        Case #Menu_P2Child2
        Case #Menu_Parent3
      EndSelect

    Case #PB_Event_Gadget
      Select EventGadget()
      EndSelect
  EndSelect
  ProcedureReturn #True
EndProcedure

Ive retried it several times, starting from scratch etc, but i'm unable to escape this bug. I guess it'd be ok if the compiler didn't recompile the PBF form after I manually adjusted the line to correct it, but it seems intent on recompiling it so i cant make any changes to it (but I do understand the compiler essentially demands full control over PBF files)

For a temporary workaround is my best option to rename the PBF to PB so i can include the bugfix (line reorder), and only renaming back to PBF when i need to make visual changes, and then when i switch back to PB re-make the bugfix?

ps. can we please have a keyboard shortcut for Switch Design/Code View? its so annoying having to find and click menu with my mouse each time! thankyou
I know there is Alt+V in Tools menu to go to Form Designer, but all that does is open the Form tab in the Code Edit view, it doesnt actually open the Form Designer, nor does it allow switching between the two