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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Menu items that change
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.045111.27513@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 04:51:11 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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  Two points:

1) If a menu item isn't shown (grayed out, that is) when it's not
   available, a use may very well be unaware of its existence. If I
   see it dimmed, I can try to find out how to activate it or look
   in the online help or RTFM.

2) On a completely different track, how do tear-off menus handle the
   adding/removing/dimming of items? Most programs I've seen the source
   for tend to validate the menus after receiving a click in the menubar
   and so would have stale menus on screen. I'm interested to find out
   how Apple (Sys 7) and existing implementations (Radius for one) handle
   this, if at all. Does this mean I should change my menus in real
   time? 

Have a nice day. :-)

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