Disabling popup menu items

[Troy Rollins]

On Jun 29, 2004, at 11:17 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:

>
>> It seems that option menus behave differently between OSX and Windows.
>> Leading a line with "(" on OSX disables the line for the menu, yet on
>> Windows it just leads the line with it.
>>
>> If you have an option menu on Windows, do you generally disable the
>> item programmatically? e.g.
>>
>> disable menuItem 3 of button "myOptionMenu"
>>
>> Rather than with some leading character?
>
> I believe there is no support for disabling menuItems in option and 
> combo
> box menus on Windows (I think this is only on MacOS). It's either a 
> HIG or
> API issue. Whichever it is it's the same reason there's no support for
> submenus on these buton styles on non-MacOS systems.
>
> Is it possible to just set the text of the button to valid options. 
> This
> seems simpler for the user too. I've seen users spend considerable time
> trying to work out why something is disabled when it was completely 
> logical
> from an application design perspective.
>

I see.

Well. That's a shame.

How about divider lines? Same deal?
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Troy
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