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7.5 Disabling menu items

Like buttons, individual menu items, menus, and menu-components can be disabled by setting the :enabled initarg to nil .

In addition, a function can be specified via the :enabled-function keyword, that determines whether or not the menu, menu item, or menu component is enabled. Consider the following example:

(defvar *on* t)
(setq menu 
      (make-instance 
        'menu-item
        :title "Foo"
        :enabled-function #'(lambda (menu) *on*)))
(contain menu)

Toggling the value of *on* between t and nil in the listener, using setq , results in the menu item toggling between an enabled and disabled state.


LispWorks CAPI User Guide (Unix version) - 11 Sep 2003

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