David Roundy wrote:
So to summarize, the idea is that by giving each menu command some kind of unique identifier and at the beginning of the code giving enough information to allow it to assemble those menu commands either into one global menu bar or into individual menu bars for each wndow, I think it should be possible to write portable menu code that obeys the user interface guidelines on both platforms (probably also all platforms, but I only really have experience with two) without writing extensive special cases.
This sounds as if it might boil down to only allowing that which is
allowed on all platforms, which is too restrictive. While there may be
cases where such a facility might be practical, it would need to be an
alternative to a lower-level API, and not a replacement for it.
I suspect that this sort of issue really is best dealt with by having
platform-specific code.
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Glynn Clements