Menu Highlighting

Re: Menu Highlighting

> Hi Everyone. I have a menu. We'll call it File. It has a number of[color=blue]
> options under it, such as open, close, exit, etc. One of my options is
> disabled and grayed out. That's good. The thing is, when I click on
> the File menu and drag my mouse down the list of options, it highlights
> all of them, even the disabled option. Is there a way to hide the blue
> highlight line when it passes over a disabled menu item?[/color]

That's not unusual... that is the way all menus work in Windows, so it will
not bother your user any (and note that you cannot select a grayed out item
anyway).

Rick - MVP

Re: Menu Highlighting

Rick Rothstein wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>>Hi Everyone. I have a menu. We'll call it File. It has a number of
>>options under it, such as open, close, exit, etc. One of my options is
>>disabled and grayed out. That's good. The thing is, when I click on
>>the File menu and drag my mouse down the list of options, it highlights
>>all of them, even the disabled option. Is there a way to hide the blue
>>highlight line when it passes over a disabled menu item?[/color]
>
>
> That's not unusual... that is the way all menus work in Windows, so it will
> not bother your user any (and note that you cannot select a grayed out item
> anyway).
>
> Rick - MVP
>[/color]

True enough. It's just that in some applications it doesn't highlight
over the disabled item. No biggie. I've got a bigger question
though... It's in the next thread. :-)

Thanks.