Bad Idea To Disable an 'Edit' Menu

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Saturday, August 20, 2005, 10:02:13 AM, you wrote:

> On Windows, the HIG sez:

>     If all items in a menu are disabled, disable its menu title.
>     If you disable a menu item or its title, the user can still
>     browse to it or choose it.

I just checked, and WinWord doesn't disable menus when all their
menuItems are unavailable. Or at least as far as I can tell. How can a
menu be disabled is disabled when "the user can still browse to it or
choose it"? I'm having trouble making sense of this.

> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch08b.asp>

I gotta read that for laughs some day.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net