Disabling Menu Groups

[Patrick]

The application menu, i cannot disable menu-groups. ( A menu that holds menu items) That is, during runtime.

MMF will kidly display the items, which i CAN disable, but i cannot select the menugroup. Yves, pls make a quick small fix for this.

I need this fixed a.s.a.p. >_>
I cannot release my editor now, which is ready to be released by now.
MMF2 really lacks support for the application menu, see my other topics too. But please, fix at least this one a.s.a.p.

[Patrick]

In addition, it would do us good to have the ability to show/hide menugroups. But that maybe a fix/update for a next build.

[Yves]

I'm sorry this is not in the top-priority list, that won't be done anytime soon.

95% of the applications I know don't disable sub-menus when all their entries are disabled (just tried VC 6, VS 2008, Open Office and another application to check, their sub-menus are enabled even when all their entries are disabled).

Why? Because in Windows sub-menus have no identifiers, so you have to access them by position, i.e. that's boring as you have to modify all the commands that access them directly each time you modify the main menu.

It's probably possible to automatically check all the children and siblings of a menu entry when you enable/disable it and disable/enable its parent if required, but it's not very easy to do.

We could also associate internal identifiers with sub-menu positions, but it's not easy to do either and won't be done in MMF2.

[Patrick]

cr*p! ok, then i will sit back and disable + enable all menu's = 63 menu's * 2 (enable/disble) * +-4 clicks = about 500 clicks >_>
! k, i will prepair my finger and meditate not stress out on this.