How do I keep menus from "popping" open?

[AXELGREASER]

That popup animation when I open menus is driving me crazy. I don't see an option to turn it off in Options.

Is it possible to turn it off? If so, how does one do it?

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherJ]

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

Can you please clarify what animation is being displayed and what option is selected when this occurs.

I look forward to assisting you further.

[AXELGREASER]

Hi Chris, I don't seem to be able to attach a screencast, but...

I see the popping menus when I am in the Control Center and click on File, Tools, Help, etc.

I also see it on the submenus such as File | New, Workspaces, Connect, etc.

And if I'm in the chart window and click on Period, Chart type, Drawing tools, etc.

Pretty much everywhere where you open a menu with more than one option rather than a new window.

Rather than opening like I would expect a menu to, which is just dropping down, the menu opens by doing some goofy animation where it "pops" open and take a short time to resize itself.

This is a link to a video: View My Video

[AXELGREASER]

I thought this was maybe a Windows Setting, so I went to Perf. Information and Tools | Adjust visual effects and turned everything off. Still seeing the same behavior.

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hi AXELGREASER,

Thanks for posting this video - I see what you mean.

Can you clarify for me which operating system you're using?

[AXELGREASER]

Kyle -

I'm trying to get NT running on a Mac using Parallels. (Win 7 HP is the Win version I'm running)

This turns out to be a setting that in Parallels. I have no idea why they turned this on by default because it doesn't emulate how menus work on a Mac.

If any other Parallels users are frustrated by this, you can turn it off by going to

Preferences | General | Appearance and uncheck "use animations"

Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hi AXELGREASER,

I'm glad to hear you were able to resolve the issue - thanks for taking the time to update this thread with your findings!