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Ubuntu 14.04
Code::Blocks 13.12
wx Widgets 2.8.12 or 3.0.0
GNU GCC compiler
Can not get the menu bar to appear in main frame using system shown. No help so far on Ubuntu forums. Have not had this problem under Windows.
I would be grateful for assistance with this.

Hi,

I presume you're using unity. Unity does strange things...

For reasons best known to ubuntu, the menubar entries for the active program are supposed to appear at the top of the screen, in a sort of screen menubar, when the mouse touches it. No, I'm not joking; they really think that's a good idea .
See the attached screenshot of a wx program in a 14.04 Vbox guest. You'll see the 4Pane menubar entries are shown in the screen menubar (which the mouse was hovering over, though the screenshot didn't pick it up).

Does that happen for your program? If not, does it happen for the wx samples e.g. 'minimal'?

Regards,

David

DavidHart wrote:For reasons best known to ubuntu, the menubar entries for the active program are supposed to appear at the top of the screen

This is the Mac way, they simply copied it from Apple

Eran

DavidHart wrote:Hi,

I presume you're using unity. Unity does strange things...

For reasons best known to ubuntu, the menubar entries for the active program are supposed to appear at the top of the screen, in a sort of screen menubar, when the mouse touches it. No, I'm not joking; they really think that's a good idea .
See the attached screenshot of a wx program in a 14.04 Vbox guest. You'll see the 4Pane menubar entries are shown in the screen menubar (which the mouse was hovering over, though the screenshot didn't pick it up).

Does that happen for your program? If not, does it happen for the wx samples e.g. 'minimal'?

Regards,

David

Solved! You have shed light into a dark corner! I have not been using Unity all that long but I should have picked up on this.

Thank you,
Robert