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Hello,

My customers are complaining that, after having used my application for some time, the pull-down menus aren't working anymore. If they make a choice to one of the items in a menu, nothing happens.

Then they quit my application and restart it again, everything is running just fine again.

Does anyone has any idea why this type of behaviour is happening?

Thanks a lot in advance for any help.

Michel,

Do you define the MENUITEMs the usual way or do you load their actions from a database, or use a macro for them ?

I mean the usual way as:
MENUITEM "test" ACTION Test()

Are you using a main MDI window ?

Does the menu fails with both the mouse and the keyboard ? Does your menu uses accelerators ?

Just guessing and thinking for a debugging plan on a next post...

Antonio,

My menuitems are indeed defined the usual way. It's all about the menues in my main window oWnd.

It is not the menu itself which is failing (maybe I wasn't clear about that). I can open the menu but the ACTION is not executed and just brings me back to my main window.

It has a behaviour like it is that one of another buffer is full. I hope you understand what I want to explain.

Michael

I have had several instances where I am using a MDI window with a BuildMenu() menu bar with a Button Bar underneath.

I have noticed that if I create a MdiChild and create another BuildMenu() menu bar which over lays the MDI menu, when I close the MdiChild and control returns to the MDI, ocasionally none of the options on the button bar work nor do the pull down menus .. I have to close the application from the "X" in the corner.

I have noticed that if I do not create the second BuildMenu ( menu bar ) in my MdiCHild .. when control returns back to the MDI .. everything seems to work. Only when I create a second menu in a child do I see this behavior.

Rick Lipkin

Michel,

Is your main window MDI ?

Do you create pulldown menus for MDICHILD windows ?

Antonio,

My main window is the only window with pulldown menus. No other window nor dialog box has pulldown menus.

Michel,

Is it created as:

DEFINE WINDOW ... MDI

or without MDI ?

thanks

Antonio,

Without MDI.

Michel,

Could you post here or send me by email a screenshot of your main window ? thanks

driessen wrote:

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DeleteObject(oMenu)

driessen wrote:

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Memory(-1)

Another possibility is that if the previous menu was not getting destroyed, then the app could run out of (Windows) resources. Sort of a memory leak.

Thanks a lot to everybody for any help.