menu buttons and showname

[Peter Haworth]

Good point. For lots of reasons, the names of my option menus aren't
suitable for display to a user. Maybe the cleanest thing to do then is, if
the text of the menu is empty, set its label as suggested by Richard. I
like that. Most of the menus in question are under the control of a
behavior so this is easy to implement.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 8:28 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > So my technique of setting showname to false if the text is empty is the
> > only way round this?
> >
> > Also, you can have a label for an option menu with empty text. Try
> setting
> > the text of an option menu to empty, then use the message box to set its
> > label to some value.
>
> With the OS X HIGs not nearly as complete as they used to be I can no
> longer find the relevant section on this, but I believe most HIGs
> suggest that we avoid giving the user the impression the control may be
> broken by replacing empty items with some explanation of why it's empty,
> or perhaps a disabled item simply saying "None".
>
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Systems
>   Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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