NeoOffice menus not displayed after crash

amayze

I have found one more instance when NeoOffice does not display its menus.

1. Open a saved document and make some changes.
2. Select NeoOffice :: Open at Launch :: -None-
3. Select NeoOffice :: Mac OS X Options :: Disable Mac OS X Resume
3. Force Quit NeoOffice
4. Launch NeoOffice
5. Choose to Cancel document recovery
6. Confirm cancellation - Click 'Yes'
7. NeoOffice launches with no document window (as requested) but with no menus other than the NeoOffice menu.

This situation also occurs after the Form letter bug I've posted about, without the need to disable Mac OS X Resume.

Hope the steps are clear.

Andy.

pluby · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:20 am Post subject:

Although not idea, this is normal limitation of our "menus in menubar when no document is open" feature.

There are certain cases where NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code will not load its special "backing window" and NeoOffice depends on that backing window to display menus in the menubar.

You found one case where that happens. The other case that I know of is when you launch NeoOffice from the Terminal with a non-existent file as an argument. In both cases, the crash recovery window and the non-existent file argument bypass the creating of the OpenOffice.org backing window.

Patrick

pluby · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:37 am Post subject:

I forgot to mention that when users encounter one of these cases, selecting one of the menu items in the NeoOffice :: New menu will trigger creation of the OpenOffice.org backing window and the menus will then be displayed in the menubar as expected when all document windows are closed.

Patrick