Duplicated "help" menu item

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John Stewart

30 May, 2014 04:42 AM

Help appears twice. Seems odd.

I love MMC: I'm using it for writing my dissertation -- better than Scrivener for me.

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Fletcher on 30 May, 2014 05:28 PM

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    John,

    Glad you're finding Composer useful! Some people like the "kitchen
    sink" approach of some apps. I definitely prefer the more streamlined
    ones like this.

    As for the help menu, I've heard a couple of other people report that. I
    don't know what the common denominator is, but it seems that there is
    something strange in Apple's code that causes an unnecessary
    duplication. I haven't found anything thus far about why this happens
    --- there's only one there, and there's only one on any of my
    computers... Are they both functional?

    Fletcher

  2. 2 Posted by John Stewart on 31 May, 2014 02:53 AM

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    No actually, the left Help menu item has a search box, the "MMC Help" option and "Syntax Guide" tied to cmd-/. The one one the right has MMC Help with the cmd-H shortcut. Perhaps some old resource code lying around? This is in 2.6.9 (53).

    Take care,

    jds

  3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Fletcher on 08 Jun, 2014 07:36 PM

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    I just tried running the latest App Store version on Yosemite, and no issues with the help menu there either.

    What language is your computer running in?

    F-

  4. 4 Posted by John Stewart on 25 Jul, 2014 04:44 PM

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    I'm running regular US English, though with a Dvorak layout (don't think that matters). I just saw the double Help again on a fresh start, and it co-occurred with the dialogue box requestiing an updated review in the app store (to which I replied "remind me later"). On a second restart, no dialogue box, and no duplicate Help menu.

  5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Fletcher on 25 Jul, 2014 09:09 PM

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    I have not heard of anyone noticing a connection between the dialog and
    the second help menu. If you say "Remind me later" it will ask again
    after 10 (if I remember) hours of use. You can see if the same thing
    happens again the next time (10 hours of active use, not sitting in the
    background being ignored.)

    Interesting...

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