Application's run-time shortcut menus don't work on local drive.

The run-time menus in my application don't work, unless I run the application from the location where it is built. This project has an application build specification, and an installer build specification. The installer specification, copies the app to the local drive. But the run-time shortcut menus do not work when the app runs. Nothing happens when I right click on the control. However if I run the same app from the network drive, where the application build spec builds it, it runs fine. When I have the application build spec build the app directly to the local drive, it works fine. The exe, ini and aliase files are identical. Why does this app run differently depending on which drive it's on? How can I fix it so the run-time shortcut menus work on the target machine? Any ideas?

Hello, I believe that when you create a custom run-time menu it gets saved to a file. My guess is that you are not including this file as part of the build specification for the application. The file likely exists in the build directory but does not on the target directory which is why it no longer works. If that does not fix the problem, let me know and I will see if I can figure something else out.
Regards,
Burt S

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