# ReactOS Weekly Report: Debugging Start Menu Shell Event Ordering

DevFeed: [ReactOS Weekly Report: Debugging Start Menu Shell Event Ordering](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/translatable-emptyness-and-long-winded-shortcuts-33033.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/translatable-emptyness-long-winded-shortcuts/>)

Published: 2014-11-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [Shell](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shell.md>)

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## AI overview

A ReactOS weekly report describes debugging a start menu issue involving shell menu behavior and incorrect event ordering. The author simplified some logic after comparing ReactOS behavior with Windows, but the issue remained unresolved at the time described.

## Source excerpt

Hello and welcome back to my weekly report. As I said in the last report, I ended the week trying to fix the start menu closing on a second click. The realization that Windows doesn't close the shell menus on mouse up, allowed me to simplify some of the logic, but the issue still resisted my attempts. After some very long hours trying to figure out where the code went wrong, I realized the order of the events was actually wrong.