From 12410fb5520293074b9876520d1e2e4cdf2eaec2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Crook <james.k.crook@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:27:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 143 - Rogue "Recent &Files" Status Bar entry generated by
 Effect Menus

Workaround for a bug that is actually in wxWidgets.
---
 src/Menus.cpp | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Menus.cpp b/src/Menus.cpp
index db744c72b..a7079f2c9 100644
--- a/src/Menus.cpp
+++ b/src/Menus.cpp
@@ -1505,6 +1505,15 @@ void AudacityProject::CreateMenusAndCommands()
 
 
       SetMenuBar(menubar.release());
+      // Bug 143 workaround.
+      // The bug is in wxWidgets.  For a menu that has scrollers, the
+      // scrollers have an ID of 0 (not wxID_NONE which is -3).
+      // Therefore wxWidgets attempts to find a help string. See
+      // wxFrameBase::ShowMenuHelp(int menuId)
+      // It finds a bogus automatic help string of "Recent &Files"
+      // from that submenu.
+      // So we set the help string for command with Id 0 to empty.
+      mRecentFilesMenu->GetParent()->SetHelpString( 0, "" );
    }