TYPO3 Core

I reconfirm this issue- in 4.2.0 - seems to be related to setting user settings to start up in page module-
if user tools->user settings->startup-> "Start up in the following module" is set to "page module" the clickmenu fails to pop
--repeadedly demonstrated with two discreet admin user accounts
first one is set as default.. (clickmenu works)
the second set to startup in the page module (js error)

firebug reports the following:

top.loadTopMenu is not a function
callURL("table=pages&uid=2&listFr=0&enDisItems=&backPath=|06498ca5b4&addParams=&bank=0")clickmenu.js (line 74)
show("pages", "2", "0", "", "|06498ca5b4", "&bank=0")clickmenu.js (line 47)
showClickmenu("pages", "2", "0", "", "|06498ca5b4", "&bank=0")clickmenu.js (line 218)
onclick(click clientX=0, clientY=0)alt_db_navframe.p... (line 1)
[Break on this error] top.loadTopMenu(this.clickURL + '?' + params);

Yes. the topframe (which was usually empty or the 2nd options were shown) was used to load a page. Due to the restructuring of the Backend, this function was deleted and thus breaks compatibility.

We really need to fix this for 4.2.1. I will take care of this!

I gave this bug some thoughts... and found out that the problem is in a lot of extensions, but mainly because they are written in a wrong way.
I don't want to support this wrong calling.
The problem is that everybody writes its own clickMenu class (originally in alt_clickmenu.php) and does not take the existing interface. If you use the template::wrapItemInClickMenu function you'll always get the latest class.
We already fixed dam_catedit and graytree (along with commerce), please report ANY non-working clickmenu extension for 4.2 here. Thanks a lot.

Maybe I have to update the kickstarter for this, I'll look into it.

I do however agree that this function call to loadTopMenu needs to be removed from clickmenu.js

Whichever way is better. But your last point is the key - as it stands now, the JS has a bug.

I have installed version 4.2.1 and i have still an error in the extension dam_catedit Is there any solution for this bug available?

Yes. Install the latest version of dam_catedit from http://typo3xdev.sf.net/

Thanks a lot for your fast answer. After installing latest version i will get error messages like this:

Fatal error: tx_dam_selBrowseTree::require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/srv/apache2/sekada-daily.de/htdocs/typo3conf/ext/dam_catedit/lib/class.tx_damcatedit_div.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /srv/apache2/sekada-daily.de/htdocs/typo3conf/ext/dam/lib/class.tx_dam_selprocbase.php on line 303

and

Unknown column 'sys_language_uid' in 'where clause'
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /srv/apache2/sekada-daily.de/typo3_src-4.2.1/t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php on line 808

The problem still persists in Typo3 4.2.8 if the following is set:

User settings / Edit & Advanced functions / Disable Popup Context Menus

Patch set 2 for branch master has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/15599