=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 It would be cool if you could update your own status using this program.:<s>This would indeed be very cool, but unfortunately implementing such functionality is at this time against the same notifications over and overFacebook API's [http://developers.facebook.com/tos. I have moved my interval up to 30 seconds thinking it could have been cause by too frequent php Terms of an interval but I am continuing Service]. You should e-mail them at developers-help@facebook.com to see duplicate messages. It's let them know that you want such a series feature so that they are aware of 5 or 6 messagesthe interest. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 16:57, same messages each time21 February 2007 (EST)</s>:This is now possible with extended API functions and I will look into implementing it for the next release.[[User:Lensovet|lensove†]] 19:32, 18 April 2008 (EDT)

I have == QuickLaunch Cursor == When using the exact same problem and 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 same two updates from ability to launch QuickLaunch without having to click on the same exact personFMenu icon would be amazing. If I could set a global OS X shortcut to do this or something. My life would be complete. Or perhaps some kind of quicksilver intergration with the QuickLaunch feature. Oh the possibilities. --[[User:70.158.150.128Loudestnoise|70.158.150.128Loudestnoise]] 1517:2414, 13 February 2 April 2007 (ESTEDT):If Hey there, the text box should now gain focus as soon as the QuickLaunch panel gets focus as of the update youlatest version (2.5). I're m still looking at implementing a system-wide shortcut for getting is "XXX has updated his profile"Quicklaunch to appear, that means that they are actually updating their profile that frequently. If it's something else, let me know. Thankshowever. Hopefully in the next version :) [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 0001:4849, 13 February 5 July 2007 (ESTEDT)

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 sideSo, 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 yearobviously, so she hasn't written a new note every 5 minutes over Growl shows the last two daysFMenu app icon in the notification. --[[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 Would it. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 11:54, 14 February 2007 be possible to change that icon (ESTin the Growl notification):Haha, now I get New note wrote a new note or to the Facebook profile updated his profile. --[[User:65.82.99.3|65.82.99.3]] 12:16, 14 February 2007 (EST)picture of the person the notification is referring to?

::Just curious, to This wouldn't apply in all who have reported this problem, what happens if you restart the app (or choose Logout from the menu and log back in)? Thanks... [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 21:38, 14 February 2007 (EST)::Do try that as an interim solutionsituations, but I think that I've found the problem. Apparently the information sent by Facebook's API it 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://fmenu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fmenu/UpdateMethods.mm?r1=16&r2=19&sortby=date possible fix] to see if the problem goes away. I should have a new release out this weekend. Stay tuned and thanks work amazingly well for the reports! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 22:28, 14 February 2007 (EST):::Any news on when we can see 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 status updates? After putting in the fix I mentioned above, I still got a few bogus notifications...but since then they've gone away, and I never had them in the first place, so their cause is hard for me to track/figure out. Are you still getting repeated notifications? Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 14:02, 24 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)::::::Please try the newest version, which just came out, and let me know if 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. Can you tell 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 with the other m a Twitteriffic user. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 03:32, 1 March 2007 (EST?)

During normal use of FMenu sometimes the loading of the menu can take a minute plus during which when you mouse over the menubar and you see the spinning beachball of death. --[[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 12:14But seriously, 14 February 2007 (EST):I will look into thisis an amazingly great app, but iand it'm changing s head-and-shoulders above the heading since other amateur-ish work that's being done with the app never actually crashesFacebook API. Thanks. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 13:49, 14 February 2007 (EST)

--Thomas Duesing--[[User:Ha138.38.226.204|138.38.226.204]] 22:48, 13 May 2007 (EDT):Thanks for the encouragement! I've just checked in a change that allows you to choose the phrase inserted into status update messages [http://fmenu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fmenu/GNotifier.mm?r1=47&r2=46&pathrev=47 to be anything you want].:As for your other suggestion, it's definitely doable, but I think I'll hold off that for a bit. Currently I'm working on crash-proofing the app (and preventing memory leaks), ignoring bad results coming from the server, and supporting infinite sessions so you have to log in once...forever. I'm also adding upcoming events and groups to Quicklaunch. Look for a new release this week!:Thanks again. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 02:03, 21 May 2007 (EDT)::The release is true, my apologies --out and will let you change the phrase used in the notification as I mentioned. Using photos from friends' profiles is something I will look into for the next version. [[User:LoudestnoiseLensovet|Loudestnoiselensovet]] 1501:5049, 15 February 5 July 2007 (ESTEDT)

== Solution to your authentication problem and one feature request Delayed sleep == Use Apple KeychainWhy don't you use Apple's Keychain for the Username and Password of Facebook. When you start up the FMenu, you can get then the user/pass from the keychain and auto login. The user had to authorize the addition of the data to the keychain so you are perfectly valid in using that. This situation is what 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 is that you use the Sparkle framework for updates. That will allow us to not have to worry about updating and you'll get an auto-update engine for free. Thanks,Aslam:Right, Sparkle requires an RSS feed with release info though, which is why it will take a bit to set up. I do plan on implementing it though. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 17:15, 14 February 2007 (EST) -=-Follow up: I'm so glad to hear you're going to be using Keychain. It's great to see developers use the awesome tools that Apple gives us. I'm sure you've already found this recently updated document but just in case, I found info on programming with the Keychain here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Reference/keychainservices/keychainServRef.pdf Secondly, you probably know about this also but I found the easiest way to setup an RSS feed was to use iWeb (part of iLife) and create a Blog page. iWeb automatically creates an RSS feed for you and then you can use that to regularly update the feed. If that doesn't provide enough customization, then tools like PodcastMaker from potionfactory.com or FeedForAll (http://www.feedforall.com/feedforall-mac.htm) or one of the other RSS Feed builder tools that are available for OSX might be helpful. == FMenu Going Nuts == A couple of times, I have had FMenu go nuts and start giving me notifications about all my friends, 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 FMenu and Growl off, 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 fixed, 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]. 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. When I've been using the Facebook Toolbar for Firefox but I think I like this better. My question is if have FMenu running, there's any way to pick the browser you'd like to use with FMenu. My main browser is Firefox a 27-28 second delay between initiating sleep and I would love for links to open in that instead of Safari. I didn't see anything 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 when the system; this preference can be changed from Safariactually starts sleeping. Open SafariThe screen goes blank, then open its Preferences. In but the General tab, mouse cursor remains on the first item there should be "Default Web Browser:" – simply choose Firefox from that listscreen. Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 12:35, 22 February 2007 (EST)::Awesome. You would think something like that would be in After the system preferencesdelay it starts sleeping normally. Thanks!:::It used to beWithout FMenu running, up until 10.2, when Safari was introducedsleep is immediate. After that they got rid of the pref pane. And people think Microsoft is bad ;) [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 22:27, 22 February 2007 (EST)

So during normal usage of my computer I will look up to the menu bar only to see that FMenu is missing== Bug 3. I never quit it, but it just disappears from my menu bar. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 20:12, 27 February 2007 (EST):Does quicklaunch remain visible or no? If not, then that means that FMenu is crashing. Otherwise, it could be that just the icon is disappearing. 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 and according to activity monitor nothing named FMenu is running. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 01:09, 2 March 2007 (EST):::So yeah, it's crashing. Is it still happening on a regular basis, or did it just happen once? [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 01:12, 2 March 2007 (EST)1 ==

This happens to me as wellAs of 10th June 2010, fairly regularlyroughly, about 2/launching FMenu 3 times per day. --[[User:821 via login items or through normal launch causes the application to hang.43The icon is grey and the QuickLaunch bar appears.144Sometimes this flashes constantly and then dies after 5 minutes or so.131|82Activity monitor on Intel says nothing is wrong, but G5 says that application is not responding.43I have tried deleting the pref and the application and reinstalling, but nothing improves.144This also has an issue on my G5 Mac.131]] 13:15, 3 March 2007 (EST)

Me tooWas checking little snitch activity, 10+ times per day! [[User:70and FMenu is trying to communicate with the api.176facebook.17.62|70.176com, but then after some minutes the et services stops the connection.17I have Facebook Notification installed aswell and that is working fine.62]] 22:48, 4 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 the value of honesty :p --[[User:82.43.144.131|82.43.144.131]] 13:19, 3 March 2007 (EST) PS can you put back the total pokes thing which was in 1.6 i think:Two things: what's your update frequency, and when the popup does show up, what is the number of photo comments shown in the menu? Thanks. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 14:35, 3 March 2007 (EST):: Update frequency of 7 seconds, and it always stays at 30 photo comments, but I don't think that's true. --[[User:82.43.144.131|82.43.144.131]] 20:05, 3 March 2007 (EST):::No need to think twice – just click on the menu item and compare it to the counter shown at the top of the page. It might be off by 2 or so. So you're saying that it always says 30, even after the popup notification?:::: Hmm, this is odd. I have 30 pictures overall. Facebook says I have 30 picture comments, but in fact i have 20 comments - there is one picture with 10 comments, which is reported twice in the 'My photo comments' bit - strange, no? So your program is reporting what Facebook says, but facebook is wrong. But in answer to your question, yes it always says 30. Oh wait. Ok it just popped up a growl picture comments message now. Now it says I have 103 photo comments. Now it's back to 30. Wha? --[[User:82.43.144.131|82.43.144.131]] 10:46, 4 March 2007 (EST):::::AHANOTE! Thanks. That makes sense – the 103 is actually an error. I'll fix this in the next release, sounds good. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 13:59, 4 March 2007 (EST)::::::Cool. could you also put 'total pokes' back in the menu please, and fix the random quitting (If that's possible)??? cheers. Do you want a crash log? or some other kinda log for A system restart made the random quit? --[[User:82.43.144.131|82.43.144.131]] 17:35, 4 March 2007 (EST):::::::Unfortunately, Facebook has eliminated 'total pokes' functionality a few weeks back (login window appear and in fact, the photo comments will cease functioning on March 22 as well). As for random quitting – I'm guessing that this is due to memory leaks which I'm currently trying to resolve, but if you know how to get the crash log, feel free to paste it into [[/crashlog]]. Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 19:23, 4 March 2007 (EST)::::::::Ah right. What I think is the crash log is there all works now. --[[User:82.43.144.131|82.43.144.131]]