Am 05.05.2016 um 03:34 schrieb john:
Ok I'm in trouble at this point. I know that your issue is related to the 'menutype= "check" ' in dBaseMenuBar.py. But if I change the menuitems to just normal items the window will open but it will not display any menus??? (see below) I also noticed that the path to the icons that dBaseMenuBar.py did not include 'icons'in the path. But that didn't really help. But I believe I could fix the issue - but I doubt that it's the real issue.
So what I did find is that the menu would appear when I forced the window to full screen and clicked on the top title bar (but without icons). I'm guessing this is an issue with Ubuntu and NOT Dabo and not wxPython because I get exact the same issue when opening wxPython demo.py. When demo.py opens with anything less than full screen the menu does not appear. When I open dBaseMneu.py with anything other than full screen the menu does not appear (this is after I removed the menutype as check). IOW the menu will appear if I force the frame/window to full screen but you have to click on the title bar.
I think you're right: this seems to be Ubuntu, and moreover not every Ubuntu flavour. I wasn't clear enough about my installation: I'm using Xubuntu, which is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop. Never looked at Unity. If I comment out the SetBitmaps() call from dMenuItem.py I get the menu quite normally, even most of the icons are there. So I'd suspect a Unity problem, not Dabo, not wxPython and not even Ubuntu as a distribution.
I get other Dabo problems, though, which I'll show as soon as I've got a small example.
I really don't know Ubuntu at all. Maybe this is some setting that has to be changed - sort of like how windows can hide the bottom icon bar.
I haven't move to Ubuntu because I don't like Unity. And now I have one more reason!
So Sibylle, maybe you can tell me how to change the way Unity works to allow the menu to appear anytime the window is open?
Did you try any of the solutions in the link you sent in your other mail? Or, of course, if you don't like Unity anyway, you might change over to XFCE or another desktop, Ubuntu supports several.
Greetings Sibylle