Bad Idea To Disable an 'Edit' Menu

[Mark Wieder]

Ken-

Friday, August 19, 2005, 11:04:04 PM, you wrote:

> 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).

Good to know about, I guess, but are there any other applications that
really *do* disable an entire menu? I can't think of any - I think
it's an OS thing about disabling menu items for apps that aren't the
frontmost app. I don't think this is a rev bug, but rather that you're
trying to usurp an OS function by doing this.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net