Disabling items in an option menu on Windows

[Richard Gaskin]

Dr Terry Judd wrote:

 > is there any way to disable specific items in an optionmenu button
 > on Windows? Disabling adds a "(" to the front of the text of the
 > specified item as expected but the item itself isn't dimmed.

I believe this is a function of the Win API, since the HIG for that 
platform doesn't support disabled option items.

I submitted a request for this some time ago, but I believe they'd need 
to do an ugly patch to work around that OS limitation so I wouldn't hold 
my breath.

Any design workaround options we might be able to help with?

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