DrRacket 7.7 / MacOS 10.13.6 Menu Functionality MIA

[paschlie]

The following functionality is not working with v7.7 (and may be related to the fact I'm using an older macos version noted above), but remains working properly with v7.6:

• the "File / Open Recent >" menu selection shows nothing (no file history)
• the "View / "blank" cmd-/=" menu selection shows no text describing the selection's behavior (was expecting it to show "Decrease/Increase Font Size")
• the "Windows /" menu selection shows nothing (was expecting "Minimize ... Various Tabs/Windows options")

(sorry, I don't have access to a mac running a more recent os version to test it.)

[paschlie]

Sorry, the problem appears to have fixed itself (possibly some data structure needed to be first updated when the app was closed, as it now works as expected).

[mflatt]

Those on-demand menu updates are timing-sensitive. If something takes too long, then the update is abandoned — which is not great. If you see this often, then we should probably revisit. I don't have a real fix (because it's a deep mismatch between racket/gui eventspaces and the Cocoa event model), but possibly the timeout could be tuned.

[spdegabrielle]

This is recurring for me
I don’t have a solution yet. But I’ll log my notes. It happens for 8.2 cs & bc , as well as the nightly
My marching is an 9y old Mbp ssd/dual core i7 8gb . It’s also an old version of macOS as it doesn’t get updates.