[PyQt] [Bug] PyQt5 version 5.7.0 OS X.11.4 (El Capitan) MenuBar requires defocus + refocus of app to work

[Naveen Michaud-Agrawal]

What distribution of python are you running? Perhaps try "pythonw" to start
the application.

Naveen Michaud-Agrawal

On Sep 24, 2016 1:41 PM, "Maxwell Grady" <max.grady at gmail.com> wrote:

> (realized I didn't hit reply all)
> To clarify, my code is not part of an app or app bundle and is just run
> from the command line. The minimal working example to reproduce the bug
> that I included is also run just from the command line and is not part of
> an app nor app bundle.
>
> Simply invoking " python pyqt5-testmenubar.py" from the command line will
> run the code and show the bug.
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Maxwell Grady <max.grady at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I have a PyQt5 v 5.7.0 app that is cross platform and functioning fine
>> on
>> > Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 however on OS X there is a problem with the
>> > menubar.
>> >
>> > When the app is started on OS X, the menubar at the top of the screen
>> > (native menubar location) appears but can not be clicked. Keyboard
>> shortcuts
>> > still work but clicking the menu has no result. If you switch focus to
>> > another program (Cmd+Tab) and then switch focus back to the PyQt app
>> > (Cmd+Tab) then the menu is clickable and functions as normal.
>>
>> I don't think this is a PyQt issue or even Qt one, I suspect this is
>> related to the app bundle you use for the application or lack of it. I
>> see exactly the same issue with an Eclipse based application when
>> starting it from inside Eclipse (which directly runs java with some
>> commandline arguments). When launching the final build of the
>> application through an app bundle everything is working fine.
>>
>> So I suspect that this is related to having an app bundle or some
>> setting within the app bundle.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>
>
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