Disabling MenuItems

[Rob Cozens]

Hi All,

Working on Win XP; RunRev 2.6.1,

   if the platform is "MacOS" then
     enable menuItem 11 of menu 1
     enable menuItem 13 of menu 1
   else
     disable menuItem 11 of menu 1
     disable menuItem 13 of menu 1
   end if

does not disable menuItems 11 & 13 until the stack is opened a second 
time in the Development environment, and _never_ seems to disable 
them if opened from Rev's Plugins folder.  OTOH,

   if the platform is "MacOS" then
     enable menuItem 11 of menu 1
     enable menuItem 13 of menu 1
   else
     get the text of button id 1004 -- the first menu button
     if char 1 of line 11 of it <> "(" then put "(" before line 11 of it
     if char 1 of line 13 of it <> "(" then put "(" before line 13 of it
     set the text of button id 1004 to it
   end if

works the first time and every time in both circumstances.

Why?  Must I apply a workaround globally?  Eg:

on disableMenuItems menuButtonId, itemList
   get the text of button id menuButtonId
   repeat for each line menuItemNumber in itemList
     if char 1 of line menuItemNumber of it <. "(" then put "(" 
before line menuItemNumber of it
   end repeat
   set the text of button id menuButtonId to it
end disableMenuItems

?

Rob Cozens, CCW
Serendipity Software Company

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