Hi Cameron -

I don't recall seeing your messages otherwise I would have responded 
earlier. The problem you are seeing comes from the fact that some of the 
preference themes enable the "eToyFriendly" mode. In this mode, the 
world menu is deliberately disabled and only accessible via Alt-Shift-W. 
  If you select such a preference theme and then disable "eToyFriendly" 
(in the "scripting" category) the world menu will be back.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Cameron Sanders wrote:
> So I figured out what was causing the world menus to disappear in Croquet.
> And this is different from the unresponsive 3.10.2 images on Vista. I know
> this isn't the Croquet list, I am just adding some closure here on one of
> the issues I raised in the newbies thread.
> 
> The problem is simple: several of the themes (appearance -> theme...)
> available in the Croquet zip file cause the world menus to disappear. [I
> will look into the details later tonight.] 
> 
> Specifically, on all three Vista computers here, the themes "keihanna",
> "takanawa", and "westwood" cause the world menus to not be raised when
> invoked by mouse clicks. [The menu raised by escape generally works, but did
> fail in one case.] If you have pinned one of the world menus (or appearance
> menus) to the background, or have a workspace open, you can simply select
> one of the other themes to get the windows back; specifically:
> "outOfTheBox", "personal", "paloAlto", and "smalltalk80" all restore the
> world menus to the expected behavior.
> 
> This was hard for me to discover, because 1) I hadn't spend a lot of time in
> Croquet until everybody informed me how alpha-ish Pharo and 3.10 are, and 2)
> many times I wouldn't set the themes, and when I did, there was only a 3 out
> of 6 chance I last-selected one of the bad ones (I never chose smalltalk80
> because of the strong warnings about losing the flaps), and when I did, I
> did not always immediately reach for a root menu - perhaps because I started
> pinning menus up after they appeared to be flaky.
> 
> --
> What a relief... just when I was about to give up on the Croquet release.
> So, it seems that Croquet may work for me. I will put in some time and see
> if I can find some pattern to the "Vista ignorance" (of mouse and keyboard
> events) in 3.10.2. 
> 
> -Cam
> 
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