Make your code that enables menu items easier to read

[Geoff Perlman <geoff at realsoftware dot com>]

If your REALbasic projects enabled menu items at various times, they
probably do it by setting the Enabled property of the menu item to True 
in
the appropriate enableMenuItems event. So for example, if you had a menu
item called EditPreferences, that should always be enabled, you would 
have
an app class in your project and in its enableMenuItems event, you would
have the following line of code:

EditPreferences.enabled = true

It turns out that the menuItem class in REALbasic v2 has an undocumented
method called "Enable" which does the same job.

EditPreferences.enable

I recommend using this method rather than accessing the property as it 
makes
the code easier to read.
--

Geoff Perlman
President & CEO
REAL Software, Inc.
http://www.realsoftware.com
mailto:geoff at realsoftware dot com
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