Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

If I were you, the first thing I’d do is put what you have (your pre-work and any backups) in a repository so you can track your history. Xcode has made integration with Git so easy. There are definitely some shortcomings with more esoteric needs, but for the most part, you’d be fine sticking

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 14.02.2017 at 23:15 Graham Cox wrote: > It’s usually easier to float downstream. +1 for nice metaphor. On the good news side: I've fixed it now. The trick was to first fix the spurious menu trees directly in the XML, then to delete keyedobjects.nib, then to make a dummy change directly in

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 14 Feb 2017, at 22:15, Graham Cox wrote: > >> On 15 Feb 2017, at 12:39 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn >> wrote: >> >> I knew how to use IB on the old PowerPC Mac, >> but that was 10 years ago. > > Well, it hasn’t changed that much in principle. In

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

> On 15 Feb 2017, at 12:39 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn > wrote: > > I knew how to use IB on the old PowerPC Mac, > but that was 10 years ago. Well, it hasn’t changed that much in principle. In fact it’s got a lot better in most respects because it stays in sync with your

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 14.02.2017 at 15:02 じょいすじょん wrote: >> On Feb 14, 2017, at 1:58, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: >> On 13.02.2017 at 17:33 じょいすじょん wrote: >>> Yeah, my first suggestion didn't work, but points out the problem overall >>> in you nib. >>> Looks like somebody did try to edit

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

> On Feb 14, 2017, at 1:58, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > > On 13.02.2017 at 17:33 じょいすじょん wrote: > >> Yeah, my first suggestion didn't work, but points out the problem overall in >> you nib. >> Looks like somebody did try to edit the xml before and munged it. > > I

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 13.02.2017 at 23:13 Graham Cox wrote: > The problem here is that you seem unwilling to take a little time > to learn the basics of Interface Builder. No, that's not the problem here. I knew how to use IB on the old PowerPC Mac, but that was 10 years ago. Now I'm trying to compile this old

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

> On 14 Feb 2017, at 3:58 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > > This annoying issue is just another reason why I prefer doing things in code. > This has already cost me hours over hours and it's still not solved. > True, I can see that. But how do I rewire my nib? I don't

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

Well, you may have a valid bug to report to Apple. You probably would want to use a tech support incident, which will get feedback faster, and in the past, when the issue turned out to be Apple’s bug, they’ve credited it back to me. Otherwise, definitely mark this as a serious bug. -- Gary L.

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 13.02.2017 at 19:49 Gary L. Wade wrote: > Your assignments for the File’s Owner and Application objects are > messed up. First, clear the custom class values for these two > objects. After that, connect the delegate outlet in the Application > object to your embedded AppDelegate object.

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

Your assignments for the File’s Owner and Application objects are messed up. First, clear the custom class values for these two objects. After that, connect the delegate outlet in the Application object to your embedded AppDelegate object. -- Gary L. Wade http://www.garywade.com/

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 13.02.2017 at 18:16 Gary L. Wade wrote: > I haven't looked at your NIB, but I've seen something of what's > described with errant choices of diff tools and source code merging, That certainly can't be the case since I'm not using any diff or merging tools. It's also just a single developer

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

I haven't looked at your NIB, but I've seen something of what's described with errant choices of diff tools and source code merging, usually when a user just accepts a merge without eyeballing it. If you've got a history of your revisions, you should find where things changed badly. Also, if

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 13.02.2017 at 17:33 じょいすじょん wrote: > Yeah, my first suggestion didn't work, but points out the problem overall in > you nib. > Looks like somebody did try to edit the xml before and munged it. I certainly did not mess with the XML! Xcode must have messed this up when converting the nib file

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

Consider getting an old PowerPC Mac, run your app as a blueprint and rebuild a new interface in the current Xcode. That will likely be faster than hacking away at your current nib, and a bit of fun as well. Take it one window at a time so you understand what is happening. That is how we

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

Yeah, my first suggestion didn't work, but points out the problem overall in you nib. Looks like somebody did try to edit the xml before and munged it. You also have nested menu duplicates inside your menus in the nib file itself! MainMenu Hollywood Menu

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 13.02.2017 at 16:40 じょいすじょん wrote: > You have a lot of dupes in your nib file connections. > For example, select the AppDelegate in the nib in IB, and look at the > Connections Inspector. > You'll see it has 2 Main Menu referencing outlets. > So it's hitting a random one of the two. > You

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 13.02.2017 at 16:34 Steve Mills wrote: > I've dinked around with it a bit more and ended up replacing > MainMenu.nib with a new MainMenu.xib. That fixes it. I'm on an older > Xcode now, so I can't open your MainMenu.nib, so I opened its > designable.nib with a text editor to see if there's

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

You have a lot of dupes in your nib file connections. For example, select the AppDelegate in the nib in IB, and look at the Connections Inspector. You'll see it has 2 Main Menu referencing outlets. So it's hitting a random one of the two. You have this kind of duplication in lots of places in

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On Feb 13, 2017, at 08:50 AM, Steve Mills wrote: On Feb 13, 2017, at 08:12:59, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know where to look because I remember nothing about Interface Builder. That's why I have uploaded a VERY SMALL test project

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On Feb 13, 2017, at 08:12:59, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > > Unfortunately, I don't know where to look because I remember nothing about > Interface Builder. That's why I have uploaded a VERY SMALL test project > here: http://www.falkenhahn.com/tmp/guitest.tar.gz Same

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 12.02.2017 at 21:49 Kyle Sluder wrote: > There are plenty of ways to write refcounting bugs. But the > refcounting bug is just a theory. All we know for sure is that > something is disabling the menu items. I assume you have not turned > off the default autoenablesItems property on the menu,

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

Have you tried printing the responder chain when this happens? But as others have said, funnelling all menu choices through a menuClick: method sounds backwards. On 12 Feb 2017, at 18:01, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > I'm experiencing a strange issue with my app.

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

Another possibility is that the target (app delegate) overrides -validateMenuItem: and isn’t doing the right thing. —Graham > On 13 Feb 2017, at 7:55 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >>> >>> On Feb 12, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Andreas Falkenhahn >>> wrote:

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

>> On Feb 12, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Andreas Falkenhahn >> wrote: > > >> On 12.02.2017 at 21:29 Kyle Sluder wrote: >> >> You’ve wired up every single menu item to a single action in your app >> delegate? That’s certainly non-standard. > > It's really old code. It's an

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 12.02.2017 at 21:29 Kyle Sluder wrote: > You’ve wired up every single menu item to a single action in your app > delegate? That’s certainly non-standard. It's really old code. It's an Xcode project I originally created on a PowerPC Mac some 10 years ago, so I don't really remember how I used

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 12.02.2017 at 20:44 Alexander Reichstadt wrote: > Do you subclass NSApplication or alter the responder chain? No, not doing any of that. -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahnmailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com ___ Cocoa-dev

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > I'm experiencing a strange issue with my app. Sometimes, maybe in 1 out > of 10 > programs starts, all menus of my app are grayed out, including standard > menus > like "Services", "Hide XXX", "Hide Others", "Show All", "Minimize", >

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On 12.02.2017 at 19:21 Ken Thomases wrote: > On Feb 12, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn > wrote: >> I'm experiencing a strange issue with my app. Sometimes, maybe in 1 out of 10 >> programs starts, all menus of my app are grayed out, including standard menus >>

Re: Sometimes all my menus are disabled

On Feb 12, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote: > > I'm experiencing a strange issue with my app. Sometimes, maybe in 1 out of 10 > programs starts, all menus of my app are grayed out, including standard menus > like "Services", "Hide XXX", "Hide Others", "Show

Sometimes all my menus are disabled

I'm experiencing a strange issue with my app. Sometimes, maybe in 1 out of 10 programs starts, all menus of my app are grayed out, including standard menus like "Services", "Hide XXX", "Hide Others", "Show All", "Minimize", "Zoom", "Bring All To Front", really everything is grayed out right after