terrypin Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 I was hitting problems with a macro that opens the Menu Builder. Eventually I tracked the failure down to what I think is a minor bug. Perhaps someone could confirm before I report it formally please? In MEP Explorer, select any pop-up macro and open it with a d-click or R-click > Edit macro. It opens the macro in the Menu Builder. Minimise that window. Select another menu macro and open that. Here, it doesn't re-open the Menu Builder. It just highlights it in the taskbar. In contrast, a standard macro always activates the Script Editor, whether it's minimised or not. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 I tried it and did not find any problem with the behavior witnessed. But then after rereading your description I don't see anything wrong with what you are describing either. The menu builder and the scripting editor are different apps so they operate independently of each other. But to be clear let me describe what I saw. Open MEP Explorer. Open the pop-up menu builder. Minimize the menu builder. Open the scripting editor. Scripting editor opens as per normal and the menu builder task bar icon is not highlighted and remains minimized. IOW it acts like two independent programs, MacMenu.exe and MacScipt.exe. Am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted September 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 I tried it and did not find any problem with the behavior witnessed. But then after rereading your description I don't see anything wrong with what you are describing either. The menu builder and the scripting editor are different apps so they operate independently of each other. But to be clear let me describe what I saw. Open MEP Explorer. Open the pop-up menu builder. Minimize the menu builder. Open the scripting editor. Scripting editor opens as per normal and the menu builder task bar icon is not highlighted and remains minimized. IOW it acts like two independent programs, MacMenu.exe and MacScipt.exe. Am I missing something? The error I described was: 1. Open menu macro X. It opens in Menu Builder. 2. Minimise Menu Builder. 3. Open menu macro X. It doesn't re-open Menu Builder. The macro is in fact present as a new tab, but Menu Builder has to be manually restored from the taskbar. That's what happens here anyway. I contrasted this with the correct behaviour for a normal (non-menu) macro, which opens consistently in a new tab in Script Editor's open window. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted September 18, 2009 Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 Yes, that's normal behavior. They are two separate programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted September 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 Yes, that's normal behavior. They are two separate programs. Well, seems a plain bug to me, albeit a minor one. Presumably ISS think so too, as they sent me a formal assignment email, even though I hadn't emailed them.--Terry, East Grinstead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 I'm sorry then, I must be thick. I'm just thinking if I open Word and minimize it then open Excel independently Word should stay minimized. Do you agree with that scenario? If so then why would Macscript.exe restore Macmenu.exe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted September 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 I'm sorry then, I must be thick. I'm just thinking if I open Word and minimize it then open Excel independently Word should stay minimized. Do you agree with that scenario? If so then why would Macscript.exe restore Macmenu.exe? I don't know why you're having so much trouble with this Cory! I did say it was just a "minor bug", but a bug it is. Let me try again... 1. From MEP Explorer, open one of your menu macros, ABC. 2. It opens in Menu Builder so that you can start editing it. Fine. 3. Minimise Menu Builder to get it out of the way. 4. From MEP Explorer, open another menu macro, XYZ. Or you might try to re-open ABC, forgetting that it's already open. 5. It should restore Menu Builder, but it doesn't. In contrast, if you repeat the exercise with normal macros, Script Editor (a separate part of Macro Express Pro, if that matters!) works correctly, so that the macro is immediately ready for editing. That's just standard behaviour. All programs follow it. Word, Excel, Notepad, Paint, etc, etc. I can't think of any of my file-processing programs that doesn't do so. If you minimise any of them and open an associated file by d-clicking or R-Click > Open With from Windows Explore, then it immediately restores so that you can work with it. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 Ahhhh... I am thick. For some reason I kept hearing that the second macro was a regular macro. Sorry! Yeah I see the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Thank you for pointing this out. I just made a change to the code to restore the menu builder when opening an additional popup/floating menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted October 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2009 Thank you for pointing this out. I just made a change to the code to restore the menu builder when opening an additional popup/floating menu. Thanks Chris - quick work! -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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