Menu not clearing from canvas window

When I click on my Game menu and the menu drops down part of it goes over my canvas. When I move to the Options or Help menus, the lower half of the file menu stays visible in my canvas. Here's a pic of it:



This doesn't happen in BlitPlus when swapping from menu to menu over a canvas. Anyone know what's going on?

Btw, I do have the canvas active and I'm doing a cls/flip on it too.

Maybe this is the same menu/canvas-not-updating issue here. The trick might be how MaxGUI uses AddHook (I never used BlitzPlus).

Excellent...that's twice you've bailed me out Wendell...much appreciated.

One more question though. When you click on the file menu, everthing on the canvas comes to a screeching halt. Is there a way to keep everything running while someone has the menu open?

^ You're welcome - I've learned tons of stuff from reading others' posts here; I'm glad to post something that's useful to others. :)

Hmm... since it's a GUI-intemsive moment (the user focused on sorting through his choices), I don't know of a way of doing other things - sorry. That could be handy, but I fear that it might(?) be mired in MS Windows' event handing (I don't know about handling in other OS-es). I wonder if an EventHook could do something (but haven't tried it - how sad is that...).

Is it really necessary to keep things running real-time while the user is in the menu? That's usually a "meta-game" moment.

(BTW, I loved playing Dynamix's 1946 Aces of the Pacific expansion :) - the "future" Japanese and American plane designs were quite interesting.)