Menu display bug

i have a new 60gb i-pod video i've noticed that when i browse to music>artist and then to an artist that contains just one album it goes straight into that album rather than displaying a screen showing album options and 'all' as it does with an artist with more than one album. that's fine and i understand its a feature of the new i-pod but if you then 'back-up' from this back to the main artists menu the title bar at the top of the i-pod's display is now out of sink with the main display, for example back-up to the artists menu and the name of the artist you previously selected will be shown at the top rather than the word 'artists'. This is made worse as if you now go into an artist's folder which has more than one album as the incorrect artist's name remains at the top of the screen. this is very annoying and makes navigation difficult. is this a software bug, and are there any ideas how to fix it? thanks
i-pod video 60GB Windows XP

I just followed along with what you said, and got the same result. Looks like a bug to me! I check every day to see if there's a software update for the 5G iPods, since they defintly seem a bit buggy.

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Through some investigation I finally found out that that warning was due to the checking of the empty menu reference.
Every 250 ms the LV runtime system hit that reference and added some lines to that log file.
I feel this must be some kind of bug since that this only happens when running a built application, not when only running the development system program.
And of course it's an annoying bug if that log file gets a chance to grow GB big an maybe crash a whole computer.

It's simple as this. LabVIEW 11 executable and VI and LV8 VI.
Attachments:
Menu ref bug executable.zip ‏128 KB
Menu ref bug.vi ‏8 KB
Menu ref bug LV8.vi ‏8 KB

Local menu displays a small copy of the page

local menu displays a small copy of the page
screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0WFSu8N2MiEVWZZajZxeDVUcXc/edit?usp=sharing

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Logic "Scroll in Play" Display Bug

Logic is exhibiting a mild yet very annoying display bug. I first reported it on Jan. 12, 2010 here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10892868#10892868
I am still plagued by this problem on my 8-core, 3GHz Mac Pro. I was about to purchase a new video card hoping that would cure it. Now, however, after trying it on a different Mac (dual core iMac), I was able to reproduce the problem. It's a Logic bug; not a problem with my hardware.
The problem, specifically, occurs when "Scroll in Play" is enabled and a multi-track tune is played (I'm using all MIDI tracks). Every so often (perhaps every 10 bars), some artifacts appear on the display. They appear to be image fragments that were somehow improperly reproduced. Below is an example.
Note that part of the bar number is improperly reproduced. Now, I have seen this bug on both a Mac Pro and a dual-core iMac. I certainly would like to see this problem fixed.

Pete_in_Denver wrote:
Erik -
I have noticed this most while tracking/recording (and not editing) - is there a way around that? Frankly, it FEELS like a bug - I turn it on, it turns itself off again - REPEAT.
Thaks for the response by the way!
You're welcome, Pete.
What I meant is: the turning-off-when-editing is by design, the turning-off-when-touching-nothing is a bug, and the only thing that works for me is to zoom out the affected window a little.

"Open with" menu displaying the same apps several times...

I've tried googling this several times but never really found a good answer nor a way to solve this (see image below)...
As you can see, the "open with" menu displays the GROUP OF APPS several times, not just the apps themselves... Funny thing is, this only happens when I navigate with the keyboard to the "open with" option, i.e., if I highlight it with the mouse a correct menu pops up...!
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
NOTE: This has happened to me since Leopard.

Ok, I will try your suggestion (reinstalling Snow Leopard), maybe not today or tomorrow since this is my work computer but when I have a little time off...
Just so you can see the "error in action" (the 'insert video' button was disabled, hence the link): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10042917/Error.mov
It's a screen recording of me trying to "open with" an image file 1st using the mouse and then using the keyboard (NOTE: if the first navigation in the menu is done with the keyboard, i.e., if you highlight "open" using the keyboard and then navigate to "open with" with the mouse I will still get the repeated menu while... in other words, the use of the keyboard always activates the repeated menu.)
Anyway, thank you for your help

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