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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Dialog Edit menu, display of shortcuts
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Date: 10 Mar 90 01:47:07 GMT
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In article <1990Mar9.004439.5462@agate.berkeley.edu> 
lippin@ronzoni.berkeley.edu (The Apathist) writes:

> The concept would still be consistent within your program, but there's
> still the problem that most other programs would leave menus looking
> active during modal dialogs, so experienced users won't try them.

Correct, since you would be changing the way things work.  It's possible 
that the system could disable the entire menu bar without breaking 
existing applications.

> Does MacApp gray out menus during modal dialogs?  Including standard
> file and the print manager dialogs?

No.

> But maybe we can all get together on this, and gray out the menus
> *all* the times they're not available.  Maybe even get MultiFinder to
> gray out it's icon when you can't switch to another application.

All good ideas.  Send them to MacInterface@AppleLink.Apple.COM.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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