[Bug]: Application Menu Not visible

[ankitkabra-bacancy]

What happened?

As I tried with fresh laravel 10 installed with node v 20 I tried to built native desktop app in windows 11. I able to up the app but when exploring Application menu section from here

I just pasted this sample code

`
Menu::new()
->appMenu()
->submenu('NativePHP', Menu::new()
->link('https://nativephp.com', 'Documentation')
)
->register();

Window::open();

`

But app is up but the menu is not visible ? can anybuddy or author help me to findout what's the cause of this ?

Laravel verison : 10.10
Node version : 20.5.0
NPM version : 8.3.2
Platform : Windows
OS : Windows 11 22H2 (build 22621.1992)

How to reproduce the bug

• Install fresh laravel 10
• install native php and build the windows build first.
• then serve the native php
• as per doc just paste the sample code to create menu bar.
• once app is up you will see nothing in application menu.

Package Version

0.3.2

PHP Version

8.1.2

Laravel Version

10.10

Which operating systems does with happen with?

Windows

Notes

No response

[ArtMin96]

Same in Linux

[ShaneShipston]

It should be there you have to press ALT to see it for some reason

[Petox03]

when you do artisan: build win does it generate the app or you get The process "npm update" exceeded the timeout of 60 seconds.?

because I'm trying to build to serve the app and it does not let me

[ankitkabra-bacancy]

when you do artisan: build win does it generate the app or you get The process "npm update" exceeded the timeout of 60 seconds.?

because I'm trying to build to serve the app and it does not let me

well re-run it again it will success just after you get error or jus apply a fix from PR recently made for it ;)

[ShaneShipston]

I've made some pull requests to address the menu. The menu would be visible by default and then you can choose to hide it.

[Petox03]

when you do artisan: build win does it generate the app or you get The process "npm update" exceeded the timeout of 60 seconds.?
because I'm trying to build to serve the app and it does not let me

well re-run it again it will success just after you get error or jus apply a fix from PR recently made for it ;)

Thank you very much, it really worked, I was able to serve the app again :)

[ankitkabra-bacancy]

I've made some pull requests to address the menu. The menu would be visible by default and then you can choose to hide it.

I tried from dev-main branch to pull latest changes and then I build app but it's get some Javascript exception popup.

[simonhamp]

A whole load of improvements to development and building on Windows have been made recently.

Please update to nativephp/electron v0.6 and try again.