Checking the disabled of a menu item

[Graham Samuel]

In the course of an attempt to find the best way to detect whether a  
menu item is disabled or not, I have been putting lines like:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:03:55 -0500, "Frank D. Engel, Jr."  
<fde101 at fjrhome.net> wrote:

> put (line 1 of button "File" of group "Main_Menu" of cd "Store" of
> stack "Main_Display" contains "[") into theDisabledStatus
>
> On Mar 15, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> [...]
>> Anyway how do people generally check the disabled status of menu  
>> items?

Thanks for the quick answer Frank -  I think I see what you mean: if I  
I look at char 1 of this line, it is actually an open bracket if and  
only if the menu item is disabled, so I could record it like this:

put (char 1 of line 1 of button "File" of group "Main_Menu" of cd  
"Store" of stack "Main_Display" = "(") into myDisabledFlag

I don't understand why I get the wrong answer when I use 'menuItem'  
instead of 'line', and 'menu' instead of 'button', but I will look into  
that separately.

Graham
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