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From: pratt@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jonathan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Proper menu title appearance when all items are dimmed
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Date: 13 Dec 88 02:55:59 GMT
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I too dislike the annoying flash of DrawMenuBar when all I want
to do is dim the title of one menu.  My solution was to dim and
redraw the menu title myself.  Unfortunately this is a bit of a
kludge since it involves direct access to the window manager
port, but it works so well I think Apple should have included
a call like this to begin with.

My question is, what is the best way to do this that minimizes the
risk of its breaking in the future?  Are we allowed to determine
the horizontal coordinate of the left edge of a menu from the
MenuList?  If so what is the calculation (in terms of ?System
Font, etc.) that determines where to draw the string?  Has any-
one nosed around in ROM to see how it is done?

Jonathan Pratt
pratt@boulder.colorado.edu