Re: fleeting help menu?
Re: fleeting help menu?
- Subject: Re: fleeting help menu?
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:29:00 -0700
nigh on 2001.10.23 12:18 PM, Phil Dobbin at email@hidden
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:58:43 -0700, Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
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> On 10/23/01 8:08 AM, Phil Dobbin <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> When launching SE 1.6 from the desktop in OS 9.1 (via the Apple Menu), for a
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>> split second there is a help menu next to the Apple menu as Script Editor
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>> starts up and then, of course, it goes and all is normal (this is with no
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>> other apps or anything running).
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>> Curiosity drives me to ask, what is it and why?
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> If you can find any other application that does not display a splash
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> screen at startup, I expect that you'll find the same thing happens with
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> it too.
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I tried MacPerl, Fetch and SimpleText and none displayed the elusive Help menu
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behaviour (all are without splahscreens at startup).
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Odd but infuriatingly irritating...
It probably starts by creating an "empty" menu bar that just has the Apple
and Help menus, then inserts the others between them. Some other
applications do this, such as the CodeWarrior IDE. Might be an artifact of
the framework used to create the applications.
--
Chris Page
Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop
Palm, Inc.
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