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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Menu disabling
Message-ID: <33832@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 89 20:53:56 GMT
References: <8908080837.aa03707@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8908080837.aa03707@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) writes:
>
>  How does one disable and then re-enable an entire menu (as opposed to
>a single menu item)?
>
>  I know there's a DisableMItem and an EnableMItem toolbox call for
>items, but haven't seen a corresponding call for menus themselves in
>the scanty documentation I have.

SetMenuFlag($0080,menuID) is what you're looking for (Vol I, p13-72).  Not
one of the more obvious calls, is it?  (Maybe the manuals should have
fictitious calls alphabetized right in there, like "DisableMenu:  Sorry,
there is no such call, but see SetMenuFlag instead."  0.5 :-)

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