Disable OSX App's menu? - have to do it; it's another bug

[Alex Rice]

On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 05:00  PM, Barry Levine wrote:

> Ken,
>
> I've uncovered another bug in the way Rev handles the OSX App menu. If 
> you execute a script that brings up an "ask" dialog (which is modal, 
> of course), Rev permits you to select an item from the app menu. If 
> the user selects "Quit", nothing happens (presumably because you're in 
> the middle of something modal). You then complete the original handler 
> by either entering data or canceling. At that point, you can't quit 
> from the app even if the app brings you to other stacks with their own 
> shutDownRequest handlers. The shutDownRequest handler never receives 
> the signal.
>
> This is exactly the opposite problem I encountered two days ago with 
> the "quit in spite of the handler's presence" problem. So, until this 
> latest bug is stamped out by Rev, I have to find a way to disable that 
> menu.

Barry, I haven't tried this, but can you disable in particular the Quit 
menu item in the app menu?

I just looked in Mail.app (what I'm using right now of course), and 
with a model dialog open, Mail.app does allow it's app menu to be 
opened, however almost all of the menu items are disabled, including 
Quit.

The general rule is: the developer is required to enable/disable menu 
items as appropriate.

Not even Cocoa (Apple's own application framework) will disable the 
Quit menu automatically for you.

Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com

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