[Gambas-user] Menu Show Event with Unity desktop

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 09/01/2014 05:07, Greg Raffaelle a écrit :
> I set the environment variable APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1 as suggested and
> the program menu is now displayed on both the global unity menu at the
> top of the screen and on the main form.
>
> However, I still believe the program main class is only receiving show
> menu events from the menu on the main form.  The attached pdf shows two
> screen shots with the program file menu displayed.  The image on the
> left is the file menu displayed from the top menu and the one of the
> right is the file menu displayed from the main form.  In the main class
> I use the file menu _show() event to displayed recently opened file
> names as items 1 through 5 at the bottom of the file menu.  On the left
> image you can see that item 1 is blank but on the right image the file
> name test2.bps appears besides item 1.  I did not perform any other
> program operations between these two screen shots so the file menus
> should have been displayed the same.  Also note the underlining of short
> cut letters (keys) does not show on the file menu in the right image.
> When I set a breakpoint on the show menu event sub in the main class the
> program does not stop when the file menu is selected from the top menu,
> but it does stop when the same menu is selected on the main form.
>
> Any suggestions on getting the two menu to display the same would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>

I'm afraid there is no solution.

The "AppMenu" protocol made by Ubuntu is poorly documented, and it seems 
that there is no way to be warned when a external menu is shown.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini