Disabling popup menu items

[Monte Goulding]

>>
>>> 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?

Yes.. you just see the dash and it's selectable.