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ADawn
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    11/04/09 at 07:56 AMReply with quote#1
I have my app running and wanted to add a tooltip to the menu items. So for the Station tab I added STATION as the tooltip and Contacts tab I added CONTACTS as the tooltip. Now when I run my application, there is no text for my menus. I removed the tooltip text and still no text in my menus. Please see attached pix.

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    11/05/09 at 02:56 AMReply with quote#2
Hello:

I just added the ToolTip attribute to the menu but I did not see any effect.  The menus were still visible.  Do you mind showing the updated menu file for me to try to reproduce.

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ADawn
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    11/07/09 at 07:15 AMReply with quote#3
Thank you for replying...

I didn't say the MENUS were not visible (look at the pix), I said the TEXT in the menus were not visible.

In addition, I started a new application and went to add a TipTool, the same thing happened. I lost the TEXT in the menu, and can't get it back.

<<<Do you mind showing the updated menu file for me to try to reproduce>>>
 
Where do I find this. Thanks for your help!
 
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    11/07/09 at 07:26 AMReply with quote#4
Are you using Classic Menus? I am trying to understand as to how are you applying the ToolTip value to the menu items.

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ADawn
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    11/07/09 at 08:16 AMReply with quote#5
OK, I'm not sure about CLASSIC menus, but this is how I'm changing the Tooltip. I'm now using ISD 6.2 for the first time. Here goes: Application Exporer > Menu Panels. I double-click on the Menu I want to change its Tooltip. Under the Display tab, in the Tooltip Text field, I add the text. Then I click OK, Build and then click Live Preview. When the app appears (like now) the Menu text is gone. Know matter what I do, the text (any text) won't appear in the menu where I change (tried to add) a tooltip.

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    11/10/09 at 07:17 AMReply with quote#6

listening...
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    11/12/09 at 04:54 AMReply with quote#7

Hi,

I'm using 6.1 and I've mentioned this issue on the forum before - its worrying that you can reproduce the same thing in 6.2. as I was considering upgrading!

At the moment I simply don't add tooltip text to the menu system at all for fear of this happening again, I use classic menus without sub-menus with the "sierra" template by the way.

Worse still I've just had a menu lose text in one menu only (yet again) and was not working in that area at all so I have no idea what provoked this behaviour.

For information if I hover the mouse over the missing text menu there's no information in the browser bottom line to say what its going use in javascript (the other menus do show this information) and yet it actually does work and goes to the page it should.

I've checked all the setting and all seems correct as to what text should be there and which menu item should be highlighted. If I have to revert to a back up I'll lose a mornings work which will be difficult to recreate.

You are not alone!

Roger
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    11/16/09 at 03:00 AMReply with quote#8
Well, I didn't have to refer to a backup after all - I deleted the menu's and rebuilt them by hand.  Even so there is a bug in ISD v6.1 as I can still enter tooltips and lose the text on ALL menus - and worse, it seems that the same bug is still present in the latest release.

Make me nervous as I am heavily customising the code on my application and cannot afford to service these problems.

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ADawn
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    11/17/09 at 05:59 PMReply with quote#9
Roger,

Thanks for replying.. I guess they know about the problem but don't fess up to it. I haven't purchased the product - I'm wondering what the support will belike if they can't answer to this simple issue.

What is this [classic menus] thing you're speaking of?

ADawn
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    11/18/09 at 02:27 AMReply with quote#10
When you start a project one of the options is to select the type of menu used within your application.

I don't like hierarchical drop down menu's so I use the classic look of menu which is simpler and I find easier to secure and maintain. Try it out in a new application to see which you prefer - I think that most examples provided use dropdowns.

Hope this helps

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