Menu Icons?

[Trevor DeVore]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Nonsanity <form at nonsanity.com> wrote:

> But these OS X days, I've never once seen an icon in a menu. Is it even
> possible now? If it is, I'd advise against it... It's definitely not
> standard UI practice.
>

Icons in UI menus are not all that uncommon on OS X. I picked a couple of
apps at random and found menu icons in use:

iChat (status menu)
OmniGraffle (tool selection menu)
LittleSnapper (publishing menu)
Adium (status menu)
XCode (documentation navigation menu)

In LiveCode we have to roll our own menus using stacks. You end up having to
recreate highlights, rollovers, etc. It would be really nice to be able to
display the icons in a standard OS menu.

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Trevor DeVore
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