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Re: How to enable and respond to Preferences Menu Item (PP app)?



on 5/30/06 8:21 PM, David A. Lyons at email@hidden wrote:

>> My experience with a plain Carbon application is that the OS does
>> NOT attempt to add a Preferences item to the Application Menu.  If
>> I do not add it myself, there is not one there.  If I do add it,
>> the OS does not add another.
> 
> I think this changed in 10.3 or 10.4 (to the behavior you describe).
> In some older versions, there would automatically be a (disabled)
> "Preferences..." item.  These days, the item appears magically as
> soon as your code goes looking for it by its command ID.

It must be 10.4, because I'm on 10.3.9, and yes, there was a disabled
Preferences item from the get go.

- Stephen

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