Menu.Name You cannot have a Menu Bar that contains DesktopMenuItems when the project contains deprecated Windows. Convert all Windows to DesktopWindows first

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Opened a very old project. I’m getting this error when I try to run it:

Menu.Name
You cannot have a Menu Bar that contains DesktopMenuItems when the project contains deprecated Windows. Convert all Windows to DesktopWindows first.

I can find no window that doesn’t descend from DesktopWIndow (I do have a hierarchy of windows; I wonder if this is confusing Xojo). Advice?

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Save your project as a Xojo Project (old Text version) and open the .xojo_project file in a text editor. Use a left column search for Window instead of DesktopWindow.

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Thanks for the advice.

The only window I have that comes up with #tag Window is one that descends through a hierarchy from a DesktopWindow.

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It only takes one to cause that warning :slight_smile:

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But as I say, it ultimately descends from a DesktopWindow.

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… and it must also be a DesktopWindow.

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There is no way to change it to a DesktopWindow while keeping its inheritance hierarchy as far as I can tell.

Making it a class rather than a window that has the same inheritance hierarchy seems to have fixed the issue.

Now I only have to deal with the 358 other conversion issues…

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You can have an application with a mix of Windows and DesktopWindows but Windows need a Menu and DesktopWindows need a DesktopMenu. There is obviously nothing stopping you having both menus in your application and using the right one for the right window.