Re: LV7.0 Edit Palette Views Bug? (winXP)

[George Gatling (Contractor)]

Alright... what appears to have happened is some sort of mystery linking 
between the palettes and the *.mnu files.  It appears that the dir.mnu file 
of one of the subfolders in user.lib got "corrupted", byt which i mean it 
was a vaild *.mnu file, but no longer matched what the palette was 
displaying.  How this might have happened it am not sure (might have been 
an issue with revision control and the fact that the palette editor tries 
to create some dir.mnu files automatically).  At any rate, I deleted all of 
the mnu files in the offending folder and created them from scratch and 
this solved the problem.

There experience prompts me to complain that the palette editor is a shabby 
piece of work that (IMO) could use some serious attention in the next 
release of LabVIEW.

At 05:58 PM 6/7/2004, you wrote:
I am trying to add a submenu to the user.lib palette... every thing 
behaves as usual until I click "Save Changes".  When I click that button, 
LabVIEW goes away, without saving the changes.

There is no error message when LabVIEW fails... it simply closes the 
palette editor and then never returns.  I can watch it vanish from task 
manager.  Also, when I restart LabVIEW there is no information about any 
internal error for me to investigate.  In fact, there is basically no 
information available for me to start searching for the cause.

So, if anyone has seen this before and has any idea what is happening.. 
please help!  :)
George Gatling
Applied Technology Division, SFA Inc.
Space Physics Simulation Chamber
US Naval Research Laboratory
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