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Re: Win32lib menus

• Posted by Wolf <wolfritz at KING.IGS.NET> Jun 17, 2002
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> So does anyone have a way to allow for that??
> Dan Moyer

Apparently not in win32lib, though it's easy in API, or any Win C compiler.
Win32lib seems to swallow up every menu related message except for
WM_INITMENUPOPUP,
< chuckle here  >
,  and a ( 293 ), I don't know the meaning of, which it passes on to an
onEvent[].

Having seen that awful word paradigm, I assume, loosely translated, it means,
let's not point out the obvious illiteracy
of our colleagues, and make their past blunderings a de-facto standard. Good
grief, even Microsoft can't make up it's
mind whether to use File > Close, or File > Exit, even though the reference to
File may only be an inference.
Program > Quit would have been much more intuitive in the English language.
The same can be said for the standard Help > About, even though there may be no
Help to be found.

Writing this in Outlook Express, I'm amused that it's main function is buried
under:
Tools > Send and Receive > Send and Receive All.
Then, to compensate for this mess, they give us a [Ctrl+M] hot-key.

Personally, I'd prefer those 'button's' in a menu bar, that don't take up any
additional real estate, and simply do what
they say, like Quit, or About, or ( do the obvious ).

... so, uh, what's that 293 message ?