Re: Menu bug (Feature?)

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From: Gregory Brail
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 19:41

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In article <1991May3.165453.14056@nntp-server.caltech.edu> czim@martin.cns.caltech.edu (Chris Ziomkowski) writes:
>Yesterday I posted an article asking for help with menus. Today I figured out
>that the problem doesn't lie within my code, but within InterViews.  I have
>good reason to want to create a menu with no items in it. (This will be a
>"Windows" menus. If there are no open windows, there will be no items in the
>menu, but the menu should still appear in the bar.)

I think InterViews does allow it, because I've done it by accident
before. Regardless, why don't you disable the menu (using
Control::Enable) so the user can't select it when it's empty? It's
kind of silly to have an empty pull-down menu.

				-greg
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Greg Brail
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Subject: Re: Menu bug (Feature?)
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