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Re: Finding location of current menu

Subject Re: Finding location of current menu
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
From Terry Kelly <tk@cestriant.plus.com>
Date 2020-02-02 16:45 +0000
Message-ID <9311143c58.Terry@tez.freeserve.co.uk> (permalink)
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In message <250f013c58.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>
          Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> Another advantage of using a submenu is that it could be greyed out until the
> links have been fetched.  If the items on the main menu changed while the
> user had it open, there could be a situation where the user clicks the mouse,
> and before their brain has completed the operation the application has
> inserted extra items and so the user ends up clicking on something
> unexpected.

Would it be feasible to have two separate sub-menus (initial links & 
further links), the second one being greyed out until the extra links have 
been received. This would avoid any problems from inserting extra items 
into a list, and possibly less confusing to the user.

-- 
Regards,
Terry

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Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-30 23:43 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-01-31 08:10 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu news@sprow.co.uk - 2020-01-31 00:55 -0800
    Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-02 13:19 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-02 20:12 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-01-31 22:45 +0000
    Re: Finding location of current menu Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2020-02-01 20:38 +0100
    Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-02 13:17 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu Terry Kelly <tk@cestriant.plus.com> - 2020-02-02 16:45 +0000
        Re: Finding location of current menu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-02-02 19:44 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2020-02-14 06:48 -0800
        Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-14 22:03 +0000
          Re: Finding location of current menu svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2020-02-19 10:45 -0800

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