Disabling popup menu items

[Ken Ray]

> In what cases is it necessary to have a separator in an 
> option button? Perhaps on this one the Windows HIG has it right?

When you want to separate groups of options? ;-)

For example, in an app I'm building for a client, there are two different
kinds of departments - commercial and non-commercial. The user must select a
department to assign to a specific record. This is implemented in an option
menu with the commercial departments separated from the non-commercial
departments in the option menu by a separator. Any other implementation
would have taken a lot more space or required the user to take more actions.

And, no, I don't think the Windows HIG has it right. (In case you couldn't
tell.)

:-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/