Disabling items in an option menu on Windows

[Terry Judd]

On 19/12/2012, at 04:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> 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?

Thanks Richard, I'm already disabling items on the fly (there are a series of option menus each dependent on the other to some degree) so I guess I'll just delete the disabled items instead.

Cheers,

Terry...

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Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne