To: "Andy Hefner" ahefner@gmail.com Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:19:04 +0000 From: Christophe Rhodes
I think that menu-items by default should probably not translate to commands. Why? Because I think that it's legitimate for an application to do (accept 'command) when not planning to run it immediately (maybe to batch it up, to send to a remote process, or something); under those circumstances, I would expect selecting something from the application's menu bar not to fulfil this accept but instead to run its own command directly.
I disagree. A menu is nothing more than a way of grouping and presenting a bunch of commands, no different than an button box. In your example, if the command I wanted to accept was "Save", picking it off the "File" menu seems like the way to do it.
Mike McDonald mikemac@mikemac.com