I also found that using ResEdit to delete the separator and re-create 
it fixes the problem.
It fixes contextual menu problems also.

Rich

On Oct 25, 2003, at 4:33 PM, Robert Purves wrote:

>
> David Parrish wrote:
>
>> I have a PG generated FB3 program (Not Appearance).  I tried it out 
>> under the release of Panther and all the Menus are sized to small. 
>> Both in width and length. Hierarchical menus are really messed up. 
>> For example I have a menu Locations -> United States -> California. 
>> The menu bar is fine, United States is to narrow and the hierarchical 
>> list of all the states lists only 2 and is so narrow it looks like 
>> Al...ka.
>> Any ideas on how to work around this? Is this something that can be 
>> fixed in my code or is it a compiler issue?
>
> The separator items in a PG MENU resource are specified in a 
> non-standard way that was legal until Panther. ResEdit can reliably 
> fix the problem, at least for menus in the menu bar. I haven't looked 
> at hierarchical menus. Follow these steps to convert the separators to 
> standard form:
>
> open the project's .rsrc file in ResEdit
> double-click the MENU resource
> for each menu
>  double-click it
>  for each separator item in menu
>   click it
>   click the Text radio button
>   click the separator line radio button
>  next separator item
> next menu
> save the .rsrc file
>
>
> Robert P.
>
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