David Burgun wrote:
Yes, but this isn't an Apple/Mac problem. I don't care if the
preference menu is enabled or disabled, but I want it's visible
status to reflect it's state, which is not what happens. I
disable then Edit Menu, but the preferences item remains enabled,
BUT it won't generate a menuPick event.
This effectively mean that you cannot disable the edit or help
menu's under MacOS X!
Under what circumstances would you want to remove the user's
access to Preferences or Help?
I don't!
I want the Edit Menu Disabled, the Preference item isn't in the
Edit menu! It shows as enabled in the Applications Menu, but,
disabling the edit menu stops the menuPick message from being sent
(to either the Edit or Help Buttons), so whe you select preferences
it does nothing!
You're in luck: Apple says you shouldn't disable the entire menu,
only the items within the menu:
ADC Home > Reference Library > Documentation > User Experience
> Apple Human Interface Guidelines > Menus > Menu Behavior:
Even if all of the items in a menu or submenu are unavailable,
the menu or submenu title is not dimmed. The user can still
open the menu, but all of its items are dimmed to indicate
that these items are not available in the present context
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/chapter_16_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000356-TPXREF119>
This is what happens anyway if you just disable the button, the
"Edit" text remains un-dimmed, but each item is dimmed.
Since you never wanted to prevent the user from accessing
Preferences anyway, this will get you want you want for the low cost
of a couple milliseconds:
on DisableEditItems
repeat with i = 1 to (the number of lines of btn "Edit"-1)
disable menuitem i of btn "Edit"
end repeat
end DisableEditItems
Instant HIG-compliant Edit menu for all supported platforms in one move.
This causes the Preferences Item in the Apps menu to be un-dimmed but
unselectable, or rather nothing happens when you select it. The only
way I can see of doing this is to use the above loop but check for an
Item starting with "Preferences", which is a tad horrid! Same for the
about box.
All the Best
Dave
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