modal dialogs and Quit problem

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Sep 9 02:39:00 EDT 2003


Alex Rice wrote:

> IMHO sneakily moving menu items (quit, preferences) from other menus to
> the Application menu really seems like a poor solution.

One man's "sneakily" is another man's "conveniently".  I find Rev's solution
to be the simplest of truly platform-independent menu systems I've worked
with by far.

Keep in mind that the problem is the disabling of a menu item, not that Rev
automates dealing with Apple's inconsistencies between Classic and OS X (and
differences with Linux and Windows as well).

It seems submitting a bug report requesting the ability to disable the Quit
item when a modal is open on OS X should suffice.  I hope Rev doesn't take
away the unprecedented convenience it offers for platform-independent menu
handling.

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