[APBeta] Windows menus

[I.R. van de Stadt]

No, Robin, I'm with you. So we might be a minority of two.
The advance is that windows-folks can communicate better about AP with Mac-folks, IMHO.
Besides I'm getting older and need those mac 'hints' in the menues.

Best Regards,
Inge

> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:39:38 +0100
> From: robin at lauryssen-mitchell.com
> To: apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net
> Subject: Re: [APBeta] Windows menus
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Being a die-hard brain-washed Redmond acolyte I'd have to say 'C'.  
> However with my feeble brain cell and having gotten used to the way AP 
> does things, please leave the menu system as 'A'.  I'm certain to be in 
> a minority (probably of one) but I have enough trouble remembering where 
> everything is anyway!
> 
> Regards
> Robin
> 
> Paul Rodman wrote:
> > Windows-using folks,
> >
> > What's the desired functionality for the menus in a window?
> >
> > a. Every window has all the menus with all menu entries, and just 
> > disables those that don't apply to the window (this is the current 
> > method).
> >
> > b. A window only has those menus that contain entries pertinent to the 
> > window, but those menus contain all the items, with the unused ones 
> > dimmed.
> >
> > c. A window only has those menus that contain entries pertinent to the 
> > window, and only containing items pertinent to the window. e.g. for a 
> > simple window, the File menu might only contain the "Close" item.
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how typical Windows apps behave.
> >
> > Paul R.
> >
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