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Ozzpot · Jan 12, 2005, 07:54 AM

My menus have suddenly starting misbehaving. They won't open until clicked on, and won't go away until I click elsewhere. Other than that they function normally. I have disabled all third party mods, haxies and cleared my login items, but even after a restart the problem is still there. All the apps do it too, not just the Finder. I have recently started using Menushade, a small app that colours the menubar, but it was working fine with that until today. Now even with that turned off and after a restart the menus are acting up.

Any ideas? I am using 10.3.7 on an iBook G4. TIA

monkeybrain · Jan 12, 2005, 08:17 AM

I don't understand. Menus are only supposed to open when clicked on, and disappear on the click of a selection or a click elsewhere. You can also click and hold of course (which as all us oldie users know, was how it always was prior to about OS 8.5 or something).

Ozzpot · Jan 12, 2005, 08:25 AM

Um, well ever since I've been using OSX, (since 10.2 came out), the menus will close when the mouse exits them, and do not require clicking away from the menu. I thought they opened when moused over, but I could be going mad. Are yours acting like this then?

Visnaut · Jan 12, 2005, 08:50 AM

The way you describe your menus working in your original post are exactly how a stock Mac OS X install is supposed to work in regards to menus.

My only guess is that it must have been some sort of utility you installed a long time ago that made it behave the way you wanted it to.

Ozzpot · Jan 12, 2005, 09:05 AM

Originally posted by Visnaut:
My only guess is that it must have been some sort of utility you installed a long time ago that made it behave the way you wanted it to.

How strange!... I must be going crazy.

[seriously] I was assaulted by 12 gang members last night, and had to go to ER to X-ray for broken cheekbones etc, but they didn't do a catscan. perhaps they should... [/seriously]

P.S. If anyone has the chance to visit Addlestone, Surrey, England, don't. I have been beaten up and shot at twice in about 3 months. So don't go there, (unless you are some kind of armed vigilante).

monkeybrain · Jan 12, 2005, 09:40 AM

Originally posted by Ozzpot:
How strange!... I must be going crazy.

[seriously] I was assaulted by 12 gang members last night, and had to go to ER to X-ray for broken cheekbones etc, but they didn't do a catscan. perhaps they should... [/seriously]

P.S. If anyone has the chance to visit Addlestone, Surrey, England, don't. I have been beaten up and shot at twice in about 3 months. So don't go there, (unless you are some kind of armed vigilante).

Holy sh*t fella, my best wishes to you. I live up in Leicester, which is too close to that utopia of Nottingham for my liking.

But back to the peaceful if sometimes unpredictable world of Macs. Menus always activate on a mouse click, a menu will close if you move the mouse off it but it will reactive (as will any other menu) if you move the mouse back over it before you click again. It's this feature which may have confused your memory.

Ozzpot · Jan 12, 2005, 10:17 AM

Originally posted by monkeybrain:
Holy sh*t fella, my best wishes to you. I live up in Leicester, which is too close to that utopia of Nottingham for my liking.

Thanks for your kind wishes. I think I'll live. My best thoughts go out to you for living so close to Nottingham. I used to work in a PC & Video Games shop, and the Nottingham branch was notorious for being robbed or burgled almost every day!

Also said by monkeybrain:
But back to the peaceful if sometimes unpredictable world of Macs. Menus always activate on a mouse click, a menu will close if you move the mouse off it but it will reactive (as will any other menu) if you move the mouse back over it before you click again. It's this feature which may have confused your memory.

Yeah, but mine won't close when the mouse exits them at all. They stay open indefinitely until something else is clicked on. And while a menu is open, the dock will not show (I usually have it hidden). I'm sure this is unusual behaviour, but I can't for the life of me think why it is doing this, or how to fix it.

chabig · Jan 12, 2005, 10:48 AM

No fixing it necessary. Your menus are behaving exactly as OS X menus are supposed to.

Chris

Ozzpot · Jan 12, 2005, 11:03 AM

Originally posted by chabig:
No fixing it necessary. Your menus are behaving exactly as OS X menus are supposed to.

Chris

I guess they must've been acting funny before, and now they're fixed!

Okay, so be it. Thanks for all your help guys!

chabig · Jan 12, 2005, 11:17 AM

Seriously, they are acting correctly. Perhaps you did have something installed before that changed their behavior. Give the new menus a chance--you'll probably like them. If, however, you decide you liked it better the old way, then you'll have to figure out what was installed to make them that way.

Chris

Ozzpot · Jan 12, 2005, 11:32 AM

Originally posted by chabig:
Seriously, they are acting correctly. Perhaps you did have something installed before that changed their behavior. Give the new menus a chance--you'll probably like them. If, however, you decide you liked it better the old way, then you'll have to figure out what was installed to make them that way.

Chris

Yeah. I'm sure you're right, but something feels different for some reason. If something was changing the way they behaved before, I don't know what it was, or why it stopped, but I think I'll just live with it the way it is now. Thanks again.