Menus and the pointer tool on Windows

[Graham Samuel]

I guess this is another very naive question, but the answer is not easy to find in the LC documentation.

If I allow the user of a Windows desktop app access to the pointer tool so that he/she can move objects around, select them etc, how do I protect the menu group at the top of the window? I mean I don't want the user to be able to select the menu group at all, so that no selection handles appear and the menu goes on acting like a menu. Obviously I can protect the group from being deleted, but how to I protect it from being treated like just another object?

This issue clearly doesn't arise on Macs, which is why I've never encountered it before - the only object-manipulating programs I've written before were for Macs.

Puzzled, not for the first or indeed for the nth time, where n is a pretty large number.

TIA

Graham