Re: Style guide for menu item for modeless dialogs?

[Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth gnu org>]

Option two seem to be used for most apps. For instance all about 
dialogs I just tested did this

Kenneth

On 31 May 2000, Jon K Hellan wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Is there a style guideline for the following:
> 
> What happens to a menu item which launches a modeless dialog,
> when the dialog is already up? Assuming that the dialog can only be
> launched once, that is.
> 
> There are two possibilities:
> 
> 1. Make the menu item insensitive (grayed out).
> 
> 2. Let it stay sensitive, and raise the dialog to the top of the stack
>    when pressed.
> 
> I think I find 2 most useful, but is there an existing guideline?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jon Kåre