7878 - [PP]Popup items like "-2" show up as separators

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6741

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Popup menu items with names that start with (contain?) a hyphen show up as
separators in the menu. For example:

<popup id="FontSizeMenu">
  <menu>
    <menuitem name="-4" onclick="EditorSetFontSize('-4')"/>
etc.

It seems that Mac Menu Manager meta character interpretation is still
taking place.

Comment 1

[saari (gone)]

This is a duplicat of 6741, and apparently a MacOS bug if I read the
documentation correctly

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

For some reason, this doesn't go through the option-dash hack, but tague's
international set menu item text stuff (which, BTW, is a chunk of code duplicated
in two places, which seems v. wasteful). So the internation set menu item text
needs the same hack (in a int'l savvy way)

Comment 3

[saari (gone)]

The option-dash hack being inserting an option before the dash?

All menu code will be consolidated into one or two base classes when Mac menus
become dynamic like the rest of the platforms.

Comment 4

[Charles Manske]

*** Bug 6861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

reassigning to saari

Comment 6

[saari (gone)]

Try the workaround of inserting a space in the xul, for example " -2"

Comment 7

[saari (gone)]

Setting M8 as per discussion with chofmann

Comment 8

[saari (gone)]

This is an OS bug on MacOS that a "-" as the first character of a menu item is
interpreted as a meta character. I've worked around it by adding a space to the
beginning of the menu name in the xul file, ex: " -2"

Programatically adding a space to the beginning of every menu item is
inappropriate, so I'm recommeding this work around.

Marking as fixed.

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Sorry, but I don't think we can just close this because there's a bug in the OS.
You're imposing a burden on XUL writers everywhere (most of whom will never test
on Mac) that they follow some obscure rule to keep Mac users happy. It can't be
hard to find a simple solution to the problem, like converting to an em dash,
or adding a space in the C++ code.

Isn't this a dup of 6741, anyway?

Comment 10

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6741 ***

Comment 11

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Verifie Dup of Bug 6741