=Bug reports & suggestions=If you have a bug to report or a suggestion that you want to make, first read what's already on this page as well as , the [[/archive|archives]], and the [[FMenu/FAQ|FAQ]] to see if your question has already been answered, and if not, click the '''+''' at the top of the page (next to the '''edit''' tab) and tell me about it! I will get back to you here and appreciate your feedback.

=Thank you= Problem with ZIP archive? ==Not a bug report (though mine's been [[#Random_Quitting.3F|disappearing]] too occasionally), but I want to thank you for this fantastic app. Now I can be sure to be distracted by Facebook at any time of day, without even opening my browser! Facebook really will cost me my degree!

Feel free to remove this; I just wanted to say thanks! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smiler_jerg smiler] 08:16, 11 May 2007 (BST):Thanks for the kind words. I can't open really wish the crashes would stop, but I will integrate infinite sessions into the archive—StuffIt Expander 10 stalls approximately 95% through and doesnnext release so that at least it won't start again, and StuffIt Expander 11 returns an error. Is there a place for me be necessary to download log into the app that's not compressed? each time you start it up. [[User:129.137.158.156Lensovet|129.137.158.156lensovet]] 1603:0636, 29 January 11 May 2007 (ESTEDT)

:Never mind, it seems I got a bad download from the link on the wiki. It worked the next time I tried it. [[User:129.137.158.156|129.137.158.156]] 16:18, 29 January 2007 (EST)::Hm, that's weird, but I strongly discourage anyone from using Stuffit at all. Mac OS X's built-in BOMArchiveHelper.app does the job much better. Happy to hear that you were able to resolve the problem, however.[[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 21:04, 29 January 2007 (EST) == Friends opting out of Terms of Service and Update frequency == I have three questions. First, exactly what effect does it have when a friend unchecks the Terms of Service box? Will FMenu not even be able to tell me when they poke or message me? Second, is there any way I can tell which friends have opted out of this? My third question is how frequent is "too frequent" for the update frequency? How frequently can I have it update without hitting the request limit? Thanks!:Here we go!:#If the friend unchecks this box, they are completely invisible to the program. That means that anything about ''them'' is inaccessible, like their profile and their status. However, when they poke ''you'', this is still accessible, because it is ''your'' information that's retrieved to find out the number of current pokes. So anything they do to you is available, because your info is retrieved, but anything they do to their profiles is not.:#Yes, there is. click on the arrow at the right of the text field in the Quicklaunch panel. That lists all the friends that are available to you through the app <s>(in a random order, unfortunately)</s>, which are alphabetized by first name as of version 1.5.:#This is essentially a guess-and-check process. As of version 1.4, it appears that 7 seconds is in fact the most frequent update interval. I personally had it running with 6 seconds, but that would randomly give me incorrect notifications.:Hope that clears things up a bit!Bug reports &nbsp;[[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 14:40, 3 February 2007 (EST) == FMenu and Growl notifications =suggestions= Great app, but a couple of suggestions. 1. It would be nice if you could click on the Growl notifications and be taken to the relevant page, e.g. if my friend updates a status and I click, it goes to her page or if someone posts on the wall, it takes me there. 2. The menu icon should also indicate whether people have posted or not. Perhaps by colour or counter?:#Thanks! The first one is definitely something I will be looking into, hopefully soon.:#As for the second one, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. What do you mean by "whether people have posted"? Posted what? Wall posts? Please clarify...thanks again! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 14:47, 11 February 2007 (EST)Basically, I think the Fmenu icon should have status indications. So if someone posts on your wall, it would be nice to have a number or something appear by or on the icon to let you know.:I see, so you want the updates to happen not only through Growl, but also through some change in the icon, correct? This can be set in the preferences for the unread messages, unseen pokes, upcoming events, friend requests; i figured the wall post counter would not be of much use since most people probably have hundreds of posts, but I can definitely add it if you think it will be useful. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 22:26, 14 February 2007 (EST)

How about auto updates? * I would like to be able to choose which notifications I receive.. for example Idon'm pretty sure theres t want to see profile updates. If this is already a cocoa plugin which helps with that (Adiumfeature, cyberduck and others use I can't find it) . [--[[User:21297.8587.20111.10056|21297.8587.20111.10056]] 0417:1432, 14 February 2007 23 July 2008 (ESTEDT)]:Yes, **Choosing which notifications you get is done via the Growl preference pane. You can open iteasily from FMenu's called Sparkle, but the setup for it is a bit intensive. It will happen eventually thoughpreferences. [[User:Lensovet|lensovetlensove†]] 1100:5532, 14 February 2007 2 November 2009 (ESTUTC)

== Duplicate notifications Updating status ==

I keep getting the same notifications over and over. I have moved my interval up to 30 seconds thinking it It would be cool if you could have been cause by too frequent of an interval but I am continuing to see duplicate messages. It's a series of 5 or 6 messages, same messages each timeupdate your own status using this program. I have the exact same problem and it is the same two updates from the same exact person. --[[User:70.158.150.128|70.158.150.128]] 15:24, 13 February 2007 (EST):If the update you're getting is "XXX has updated his profile", that means that they are actually updating their profile that frequently. If it'<s something else>This would indeed be very cool, let me know. Thanks. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 00:48, 13 February 2007 (EST) The one that keeps repeating for me but unfortunately implementing such functionality is "XXXX wrote a new note" and "XXXX has updated her profile" It is always the same person and I've looked at their profile and it doesn't look like it's changing to me. --[[User:70.158.150.128|70.158.150.128]] 15:23, 13 February 2007 (EST) I can verify the above problem. I have one friend that has consistently showed up as "XXXX has updated her profile" and "XXXX wrote a new note." They show side by side, often with any other events from other friends. Its been showing up nonstop since I downloaded it two days ago. She only has one note from last year, so she hasn't written a new note every 5 minutes over the last two days. --[[User:146.151.11.242|146.151.11.242]] 03:24, 14 February 2007 (EST):Wow, I just started getting this myself. Will def look into it. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 11:54, 14 February 2007 (EST):Haha, now I get New note wrote a new note or profile updated his profile. --[[User:65.82.99.3|65.82.99.3]] 12:16, 14 February 2007 (EST) ::Just curious, to all who have reported this problem, what happens if you restart the app (or choose Logout from time against the menu and log back in)? Thanks... [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 21:38, 14 February 2007 (EST)::Do try that as an interim solution, but I think that I've found the problem. Apparently the information sent by FacebookAPI's API would sometimes contain profiles with a blank "name" field, and I think this is what was setting off the erroneous notifications. I'll be testing a [http://fmenudevelopers.svnfacebook.sourceforge.netcom/viewvc/fmenu/UpdateMethodstos.mm?r1=16&r2=19&sortby=date possible fixphp Terms of Service] to see if the problem goes away. I You should have a new release out this weekende-mail them at developers-help@facebook. Stay tuned and thanks for the reports! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 22:28, 14 February 2007 (EST):::Any news on when we can see com to let them know that update? I'd be glad to test it to see if it resolves the duplicate notification issue [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 11:56, 24 February 2007 (EST)::::I hope to get it out this weekend...however I have a question for you, are you still getting those duplicate updates? After putting in the fix I mentioned above, I still got want such a few bogus notifications...but since then feature so that they've gone away, and I never had them in are aware of the first place, so their cause is hard for me to track/figure outinterest. Are you still getting repeated notifications? Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 1416:0257, 24 21 February 2007 (EST):::::I have the newest version and I am experiencing the same problems I reported before (with new note</updated profile notifications appearing tandem, and alongside almost all other legitimate notifications. It is from the same person all the time, and they have not made any new notes. --[[User:146.151.11.242|146.151.11.242]] 16:54, 24 February 2007 (EST)s>::::::Please try the newest version, which just came out, and let me know if this This is still happening. Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 03:52, 26 February 2007 (EST):::::::I have just updated to the new version and have yet to receive any duplicate or incorrect notifications. Will keep watching and hoping there are none to come. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 15:11, 26 February 2007 (EST)::::::::Still happens. I even went ahead and used appzapper to remove all existing pieces of FMenu and install v2.0. Same exact person same exact notices as before. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 15:24, 26 February 2007 (EST)::::::::Agreed. I've updated and within 5 minutes have gotten the same person, same problem. --[[User:Shaun|Shaun]] 02:23, 1 March 2007 (EST):::::::::Check to see if that person has two separate facebook accounts. That happened to be the problem now possible with the other user. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 03:32, 1 March 2007 (EST) == Spinning Beachball == During normal use of FMenu sometimes the loading of the menu can take a minute plus during which when you mouse over the menubar extended API functions and you see the spinning beachball of death. --[[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 12:14, 14 February 2007 (EST):I will look into this, but i'm changing implementing it for the heading since the app never actually crashesnext release. [[User:Lensovet|lensovetlensove†]] 1319:4932, 14 February 2007 18 April 2008 (ESTEDT)

:Ha== QuickLaunch Cursor == When using the QuickLaunch feature it would be amazing if when you either click on the menu item, or use the keyboard shortcut that the cursor appears within the text box. Reducing the use of the mouse or trackpad is always a nice thing. Additionally the ability to launch QuickLaunch without having to click on the FMenu icon would be amazing. If I could set a global OS X shortcut to do this is true, my apologies or something. My life would be complete. Or perhaps some kind of quicksilver intergration with the QuickLaunch feature. Oh the possibilities. --[[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 1517:14, 2 April 2007 (EDT):Hey there, the text box should now gain focus as soon as the QuickLaunch panel gets focus as of the latest version (2.5). I'm still looking at implementing a system-wide shortcut for getting Quicklaunch to appear, however. Hopefully in the next version :) [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 01:5049, 15 February 5 July 2007 (ESTEDT)

== Solution to your authentication problem and one feature request Status Updates with Profile Pictures? ==

Use Apple KeychainWhy don't you use Apple's Keychain for the Username and Password of Facebook. When you start up So, obviously, Growl shows the FMenu, you can get then app icon in the user/pass from notification. Would it be possible to change that icon (in the keychain and auto login. The user had Growl notification) to authorize the addition Facebook profile picture of the data to the keychain so you are perfectly valid in using that. This situation is what person the keychain was designed for, just go ahead and use it.:That is precisely what I plan on doing, I just need to figure out how to code it. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 17:15, 14 February 2007 (EST)Sparkle for updates:The feature request I have notification is that you use the Sparkle framework for updates. That will allow us referring to not have to worry about updating and you'll get an auto-update engine for free.?

ThanksThis wouldn't apply in all situations,Aslam:Right, Sparkle requires an RSS feed with release info though, which is why but it will take a bit to set upwould work amazingly well for status updates. (Can you tell I do plan on implementing it though. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 17:15, 14 February 2007 (EST'm a Twitteriffic user?)

I'm so glad to hear you're going to be using Keychain. ItBut seriously, this is an amazingly great app, and it's great to see developers use head-and-shoulders above the awesome tools other amateur-ish work that Apple gives us. I'm sure you've already found this recently updated document but just in case, I found info on programming s being done with the Keychain here: http://developer.appleFacebook API.com/documentation/Security/Reference/keychainservices/keychainServRef Thanks.pdf

Secondly--Thomas Duesing--[[User:138.38.226.204|138.38.226.204]] 22:48, you probably know about this also but I found the easiest way to setup an RSS feed was to use iWeb 13 May 2007 (part of iLifeEDT) and create :Thanks for the encouragement! I've just checked in a Blog page. iWeb automatically creates an RSS feed for change that allows you and then you can use that to regularly choose the phrase inserted into status update the feedmessages [http://fmenu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fmenu/GNotifier.mm?r1=47&r2=46&pathrev=47 to be anything you want]. If :As for your other suggestion, it's definitely doable, but I think I'll hold off that doesnfor a bit. Currently I't provide enough customizationm working on crash-proofing the app (and preventing memory leaks), then tools like PodcastMaker ignoring bad results coming from potionfactorythe server, and supporting infinite sessions so you have to log in once...com or FeedForAll (http://wwwforever.feedforallI'm also adding upcoming events and groups to Quicklaunch.com/feedforall-macLook for a new release this week!:Thanks again.htm[[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 02:03, 21 May 2007 (EDT) or one of ::The release is out and will let you change the phrase used in the other RSS Feed builder tools that are available notification as I mentioned. Using photos from friends' profiles is something I will look into for OSX might be helpfulthe next version.[[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 01:49, 5 July 2007 (EDT)

== FMenu Going Nuts Delayed sleep ==

A couple of times, Hi -- I have had FMenu go nuts and start giving me notifications about all my friends, posted this over on the same three or four notifications (new note, updated status, etc.), even though they had done none of the above. One time, it happened right when I plugged my MacBook into an external monitor. This went on ''ad infinitum'', repeating notifications. The notifications stickied, and even though I turned both Facebook FMenu and Growl offUsers page, they kept coming. It bogged my system down so much (and kept notifying) that I had to do a hard shut-down of the MacBook. I've had FMenu disabled since. --Carl Peterson:I'm sorry to hear that you had such bad problems. I don't know why they were sticking; none of the notifications are set to sticky by default. I will be releasing a new version soon that will hopefully eliminate these repeated notifications once and for all, and hope that you will give it a try and let me know how it works for you. Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 02:50, 21 February 2007 (EST)::::I can hardly wait for the update. I've considered not using FMenu until the duplicates are fixedreposting, but it's just so darn handy. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 12:39, 21 February 2007 (EST) == Updating status == It would be cool if you could update your own status using this program.:This would indeed be very cool, but unfortunately implementing such functionality is at this time against the Facebook API's [http://developers.facebook.com/tos.php Terms of Service]unclear where bug reports should go. You should e-mail them at developers-help@facebook.com to let them know that you want such a feature so that they are aware of the interest. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 16:57, 21 February 2007 (EST)

Great work with this app. I've been using the Facebook Toolbar for Firefox but I think I like this better. My question is if there's any way to pick the browser you'd like to use with FMenu. My main browser is Firefox and I would love for links to open in that instead of Safari. I didn't see anything No messages in the FMenu/Growl preferences so I'm guessing there's no way to change it from Safari currently. Keep up the good work.:FMenu just uses the default browser set by the system; this preference can be changed from Safarior user logs. Open Safari, then open its Preferences. In the General tab, the first item there should be "Default Web Browser:" – simply choose Firefox from that list. Thanks! [[UserHere is my configuration:Lensovet|lensovet]] 12:35PB G4, 22 February 2007 (EST)::AwesomeOS X 10. You would think something like that would be in the system preferences4. Thanks!:::It used to be11, up until 10FMenu 3.20, when Safari was introducedGrowl 1. After that they got rid of the pref pane1. And people think Microsoft is bad ;) [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 22:27, 22 February 2007 (EST)4

== Random Quitting? Bug 3.1 ==

So during As of 10th June 2010, roughly, launching FMenu 3.1 via login items or through normal usage of my computer I will look up to launch causes the menu bar only application to see that FMenu hang.The icon is missing. I never quit it, but it just disappears from my menu grey and the QuickLaunch barappears. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 20:12, 27 February 2007 (EST):Does quicklaunch remain visible Sometimes this flashes constantly and then dies after 5 minutes or no? If not, then that means that FMenu so.Activity monitor on Intel says nothing is crashing. Otherwisewrong, it could be but G5 says that just the icon application is disappearingnot responding. Which is it? thanks... [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 23:03, 27 February 2007 (EST)::I'm not sure what you mean by quicklaunch remaining visible. The icon just disappears have tried deleting the pref and the application and according to activity monitor reinstalling, but nothing named FMenu is runningimproves. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 01:09, 2 March 2007 (EST):::So yeah, it's crashingThis also has an issue on my G5 Mac. Is it still happening on a regular basis, or did it just happen once? [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 01:12, 2 March 2007 (EST)

This happens Was checking little snitch activity, and FMenu is trying to me as wellcommunicate with the api. --[[User:82facebook.43.144.131|82com, but then after some minutes the et services stops the connection.43I have Facebook Notification installed aswell and that is working fine.144.131]] 13:15, 3 March 2007 (EST)

Occasionally, say every hour or two, a growl thingy pops up saying "You have new photo comments", when I don't. I appreciate it trying to make me feel wanted, but there is an inevitable let-down when I find out it's been lying to me. Why?? I advise you to teach your program NOTE! A system restart made the value of honesty :p --[[User:82.43.144.131|82.43.144login window appear and all works now.131]] 13:19, 3 March 2007 (EST)