Good point. For lots of reasons, the names of my option menus aren't suitable for display to a user. Maybe the cleanest thing to do then is, if the text of the menu is empty, set its label as suggested by Richard. I like that. Most of the menus in question are under the control of a behavior so this is easy to implement.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 8:28 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > > > So my technique of setting showname to false if the text is empty is the > > only way round this? > > > > Also, you can have a label for an option menu with empty text. Try > setting > > the text of an option menu to empty, then use the message box to set its > > label to some value. > > With the OS X HIGs not nearly as complete as they used to be I can no > longer find the relevant section on this, but I believe most HIGs > suggest that we avoid giving the user the impression the control may be > broken by replacing empty items with some explanation of why it's empty, > or perhaps a disabled item simply saying "None". > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode