Bad Idea To Disable an 'Edit' Menu

[James Spencer]

On Aug 20, 2005, at 1:16 AM, MisterX wrote:

> Hi Ken
>
> This seems more like an OS behavior
> than a Rev problem doesn't it?
>
> It sure should be made aware for those
> developping on PCs hoping to deploy on osx...
> ...
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Ken Ray
>> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 08:04
>> To: Use Revolution List
>> Subject: Bad Idea To Disable an 'Edit' Menu
>>
>> Just passing along an interesting tidbit of information that
>> I just ran
>> into:
>>
>> If your application has an 'Edit' menu AND it has a
>> 'Preferences' menu item AND you deploy to Mac OS X, then you
>> should never disable the entire Edit menu (you should leave
>> the menu itself enabled, but individually disable the items
>> you want to prevent users from executing).
>>
>> The reason is that under OS X, the Preferences menu item
>> disappears from the bottom of the Edit menu and appears under
>> the Application menu. This item is
>> *always* appears enabled under the Application menu, but if
>> you've disabled the Edit menu, selecting Preferences from the
>> Application menu *won't work*.
>>
>> Now, this may just be a bug (I'll log it as such), but until
>> it's fixed or documented, you should disable the individual
>> items in the menu and not the menu itself.

Ken, have you logged this yet so I can go vote for it.  Personally I  
think it is clearly a bug.  MisterX is incorrect, this is not OS  
behavior.  The placement of the preferences item at the end of the  
Edit menu and then moving it on OS X is pure Rev.

Whatever, thank you for pointing it out.  I  had not noticed it but I  
have a couple of stacks where the problem exists and I am glad to fix  
it before my users find it.

Spence