Screenshots and Report-an-Apple-Bug - part 2
Well, I can’t say I’m entirely shocked that others can’t reproduce this, but just to prove my sanity, here’s a screen shot.
Actually getting that screen-shot turned out not to be quite as trivial as I initially expected, since it seems good old Apple-Shift-3 doesn’t capture the cursor (without which that screen shot is kinda meaningless). A quick search turned up the mostly useful Screenshot Hacks for Mac OS X page (I’d completely forgotten about grab.app), which was great until I found Grab didn’t show the cursor. Anyway, to cut to the chase, Grab.app has a preference which lets you choose the cursor to display in the screen shot, which defaults to none. No idea if it’s always been that way.
Anyway, for those who can’t reproduce this, one question. I can reliably drag from the left menus into the right, but never back (or from the right into the left). Do other people see the same, or is it a symptom of the same problem?
Update: Thanks to Simone Manganelli for a useful rundown of what sounds like the same bug. It doesn’t quite explain the inconsistency (i.e. I can sometimes drag from the time menu to the user one as in that screen-shot without a problem), but it sounds like those menus are generally problematic.
September 3rd, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Just another quick note.
Do you have times when you can’t drag from the time menu to the user menu? Because it’s pretty consistent on my machine — I can always drag between those two menus to get the menu to drop down. (They’re both menu extras, which means, per the “rules” I noted before, you can drag between them at will to open the menus.)
Perhaps the discrepancy is that you’re using WinSwitch, while I’m not. That shouldn’t make a difference, though, ’cause WinSwitch is a menu extra as well.
Oh, well, I’m glad you filed the bug.
– Simone
September 3rd, 2005 at 12:09 pm
Yep, I’ve seen it.
September 3rd, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Oh, just ANOTHER quick note — sorry for the “spam”. I just wanted to say that when you say you can drag from the left menus to the right menus reliably, but never back. This is also consistent with the rules, since the left menus are “effectively” non-menu-extras. Per my “rules”, you can drag from non-menu-extra menus to menu-extra menus, but not from menu-extra menus to non-menu-extra menus.
Must… resist… impulse… to… continue… commenting… I’ll be quiet now.
– Simone
September 3rd, 2005 at 1:05 pm
Yes Simone, I can drag between the menus a bit more than 50% of the time, and get the behaviour in the screen-shot above the rest.
And no, I’m not running WinSwitch either so it can’t be that.
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