On Nov 4, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Viraj Mody wrote:

> I have an application that sits in the status bar on the Mac. It has a menu
> that lets you look at the app version, change some settings and quit the
> app.
> 
> I built it on Leopard and it works fine on Leopard. On Snow Leopard, I can
> see the app in the status bar and clicking on it shows the menu items. But
> clicking items in the menu doesn't do anything. The app isn't hung - it's
> doing stuff that it's expected to do. The UI thread isn't hung either - I
> can see the menu obviously, and and dialogs that the app causes to show on
> the UI thread (outside of the ones when the menu is clicked) show up fine.
> Compiling it on Snow Leopard targeted for 10.6 doesn't seem to change this
> behavior.
> 
> So I know that the app is able to create dialogs, isn't hung and is
> functioning. I suspect this has something to do with the menu, and handling
> menu clicks either in my app or in Snow Leopard.
> 
> Anyone else have suggestions on what this might be or where I should look?
> Any suggestions on where I can place a BP to trap whether the menu item
> click is actually happening?
> 
> I've uploaded a simple repro 10.6 XCode project. I'll send a virtual beer
> your way if you can take a look and let me know if you see what's wrong.

Your status bar menu is also the main menu.  This isn't a supported 
configuration - you can't use a menu in more than one place at once.

-Peter


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