#195 Odd menubar behaviour

[Chris Skeels]

Since upgrading to OS X 10.14 .1 a few days ago I am see a very odd behaviour in respect of custom menu icons. It is illustrated in the attached pdf file. The missing menu icons are for the Open Windows , filesets and LaTeX menus, I have in the ~/Library/Application Support/Alpha/Icons folder new (well, old actually) icons for each of these menus and also for the BibTeX (which somewhat paradoxically appears in the menubar. For what it is worth , the icon files that I was using, but aparently am no longer using, were the older coloured icons for fileset.icns, openWins.icns, and the earlier, happier, original OzTeX icon for oztex.icns that I recovered from an earlier version of Alpha (or AlphaX, or AlphaCocoa, as the case may be). Removing the Icons folder from the path listed above and re-starting Alpha does restore the drabber replacement icons that I am trying to replace. However, this customization method had been working so I hope that it may continue to do so.

Cheers, Chris.

[Bernard Desgraupes]

Hi Chris,
this is not an Alpha bug, but rather a new behavior of the system. As you may know, an icns file contains different versions of an image at different sizes and depths. My guess is that Mojave (OS X 10.14) expects to find 32 bits icons and your icns files do not contain this size. I have just checked (out of AlphaX) for the fileset and oztex icons (the oldish ones). Both icns files contain only the following sizes:

ics#    16x16 1-bit mask (32 img + 32 mask)
ics4    16x16 4-bit icon
ics8    16x16 8 bit icon

Your BibTeX icns file on the contrary probably contains a richer set of sizes out of which Mojave can pick something. I would have to look into this file to tell more.

[Bernard Desgraupes]

Has this issue been solved ? I don't think Alpha is responsible for this since it seems to be related to external resources.

[Chris Skeels]

Yes. This should be closed. Thanks Bernard.

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From: Bernard Desgraupes via AlphaCocoa-devel alphacocoa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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Date: Monday, 10 December 2018 at 4:16 am
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Cc: Bernard Desgraupes bdesgraupes@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #195 Odd menubar behaviour

Has this issue been solved ? I don't think Alpha is responsible for this since it seems to be related to external resources.

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[tickets:#195]https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/195/ Odd menubar behaviour

Status: open
Created: Fri Nov 09, 2018 04:31 AM UTC by Chris Skeels
Last Updated: Fri Nov 09, 2018 06:15 AM UTC
Owner: nobody
Attachments:

• Menubar.pdfhttps://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/195/attachment/Menubar.pdf (120.1 kB; application/pdf)

Since upgrading to OS X 10.14 .1 a few days ago I am see a very odd behaviour in respect of custom menu icons. It is illustrated in the attached pdf file. The missing menu icons are for the Open Windows , filesets and LaTeX menus, I have in the ~/Library/Application Support/Alpha/Icons folder new (well, old actually) icons for each of these menus and also for the BibTeX (which somewhat paradoxically appears in the menubar. For what it is worth , the icon files that I was using, but aparently am no longer using, were the older coloured icons for fileset.icns, openWins.icns, and the earlier, happier, original OzTeX icon for oztex.icns that I recovered from an earlier version of Alpha (or AlphaX, or AlphaCocoa, as the case may be). Removing the Icons folder from the path listed above and re-starting Alpha does restore the drabber replacement icons that I am trying to replace. However, this customization method had been working so I hope that it may continue to do so.

Cheers, Chris.

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