⌥click on the menu bar (top of the Catalina Mac) brings up the hook window with its title bar, drop zone, and status bar, BUT the drop zone is useless. If I click on an item to drag it into drop zone, the window disappears instantly.
welcome to the Hook Productivity Forum, DrMajorBob.
You’re describing designed behavior.
Just drag an item onto the menu bar icon and the window will re-appear.
Instructions for Hook window are here:
- Drag and Drop Linking: One Item at a Time – Hook and
- Drag and Drop Linking: Many Items at a Time – Hook
overview:
Menu Bar Window – Hook.
this reminds we should add videos to this. A video is worth a thousand words.
We also intend to provide a regular app window that is always available. It will contain drop zones. And you’ll be able to drag one or more items (i.1) onto an item (i.2) to link all of the i.1 items to i.2. And variations on the theme.
A “regular app window” is the first, most obvious thing you should have built.
I’m having the same problem here, when I grab an item the menu bar is not visible so I can’t drag it onto the icon. I don’t have menu bar at the top permanently open on my os, and if I drag an item to the top it won’t reveal the menu bar. only when I have the cursor by itself at the top of the Mac does the menu bar reveal itself. Any ideas what I can do.