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"Too many items" in Graph menu (bug?)

Wed, 06/09/2010 - 05:51 pm

Hi all,

At the bottom of my Graph menu, it says "too many items" (grayed out). This shows up right after Graph > Graph Axes. True to its name, this seems to cap having any more menu items. Specifically, I tried to add RGerkin's DragAndDropTraces, which is supposed to add 1 item to my Graph menu, but it cannot display. If I change the code to add the item to a shorter menu (e.g., "Misc"), there is no problem.

This seems like unexpected behavior, if not an outright bug. I would expect some kind of expansion arrow, not "too many items."

I count 25 menu items plus 5 dividers in the menu before I get "too many items" (26th position).

I'm running (32-bit) Igor 6.20 on Vista64.

Thanks,
Nick

aclight

It sounds like you're running into this, from Programming.ihf

In the Windows version of Igor, there is also a limit of 31 items in a menu, and each special user-defined menu counts as several user-defined menus or submenus. For example, a "*COLORPOP*" submenu counts as 6 submenus against the allowed 200.

June 9, 2010 at 06:29 pm - Permalink

D'oh!...

Ostensibly I'm already missing some menu items from Graph. I guess I should try to track them down via Find "Menu 'Graph'" and try to stash them somewhere else. This sounds like the only workaround.

Thanks.

June 10, 2010 at 08:55 am - Permalink