diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/ImageTest.nas b/Nasal/canvas/ImageTest.nas
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ba01eefdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/ImageTest.nas
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+var ImageTest = {
+
+  new : func()
+  {
+    var obj = {
+      parents : [ ImageTest ],
+      width : 528,
+      height : 528,
+    };
+
+    obj.window = canvas.Window.new([obj.width,obj.height],"dialog").set('title',"CanvasImageTest");
+
+    # creating the top-level/root group which will contain all other elements/group
+    obj.myCanvas = obj.window.createCanvas();
+    obj.myCanvas.set("name", "Test");
+    obj.root = obj.myCanvas.createGroup();
+    obj._slice = 17;
+
+    obj._frame =
+      obj.root.createChild("image", "background")
+          .set("src", "gui/images/tooltip.png")
+          .set("slice", obj._slice ~ " fill")
+          .setSize([obj.width,obj.height]);
+
+    obj._image = obj.root.createChild("image", "TestImage")
+      .setSize(500, 500);
+    obj._image.set("src", "gui/images/cat.png");
+
+      obj.pixelX = 0;
+      obj.pixelY = 0;
+
+      var t = maketimer(0.05, obj, func {
+        obj.pixelX += 1;
+        if (obj.pixelX >= obj.width) {
+          obj.pixelX = 0;
+          obj.pixelY += 1;
+          if (obj.pixelY >= obj.height) {
+            obj.pixelY = 0;
+          }
+        }
+       
+        var c = math.mod(obj.pixelX + obj.pixelY, 32) / 32.0;
+        me._image.setPixel(obj.pixelX, obj.pixelY, [c, (1.0 - c), c, 1.0]);
+        me._image.dirtyPixels();
+      });
+      t.start();
+  }
+};
+
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
index 40742504d..220a499a9 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ var gui = {
   focused_window: nil,
   open_popups: [],
   region_highlight: nil,
+  menubar: nil,
 
   # Window/dialog stacking order
   STACK_INDEX: {
@@ -595,7 +596,8 @@ getDesktop().addEventListener("mousedown", func {
   }
 });
 
-gui.menubar = gui.MenuBar.new();
+# disabled until this is hooked up to the PUICompat code
+#gui.menubar = gui.MenuBar.new();
 
 # Provide old 'Dialog' for backwards compatiblity (should be removed for 3.0)
 var Dialog = {
@@ -607,5 +609,8 @@ var Dialog = {
 };
 
 var unloadGUI = func() {
-	gui.menubar.del();
+  if (gui.menubar) {
+  	gui.menubar.del();
+    gui.menubar = nil;
+  }
 }