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Menu bug in LV8?


Mads

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Downloaded and activated LV8 and converted one of our projects from 7.1.1. A bit of a struggle to get all the dynamically linked VIs to refer to the right sub-VIs now that it supports "name spaces", and it seems a bit strange to add VIs directly from disk instead of selecting them from the project, HOWEVER...

I came across something that looks like a bug, namely how built applications handle top level menu items that have a _ prefix in their name to allow Alt+Letter navigation. It works as it should in the development environment, but when you build the application the menus end up in a pile and the _ prefix has become a line above the first letter instead. Look at the attached illustration. Is this something anyone else have seen or can reproduce?

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This actually seems to be two bugs: One is the fact that _ prefixes are interpreted incorrectly and secondly there is no separation between menu items, they are piled together regardless of the use of _ prefixes...Ugly one! Makes menus in built applications useless unless you only have one menu...

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This actually seems to be two bugs: One is the fact that _ prefixes are interpreted incorrectly and secondly there is no separation between menu items, they are piled together regardless of the use of _ prefixes...Ugly one! Makes menus in built applications useless unless you only have one menu...

Hello,

I can't seem to reproduce the behavior that you are reporting. Would you possibly have a small segment of code to reproduce the problem?

Thanks,

Travis

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Found it!

The bug occurs if you override the app and system font in the application INI file.

Just put

appFont=""Tahoma" 13"

systemFont=""Tahoma" 13"

in the INI file and you will see the menus garble up in the built application.

I have not yet looked to see if these keys have changed, been replaced or removed from LV8(?), it is still a bug in my eyes but perhaps just a backwards compatibility bug...(?)

I have attached an example. Removing the last two keys in the .ini file will as you can see remove the problem.

Download File:post-1777-1129978050.zip

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