>Can anyone tell me what's the best practice for handling menus:
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>1. Once the user selects from a menu, disable all others until the user closes the form.
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>OR
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>2. Give the user the capability to make multiple selections, thereby leaving many forms up and running.
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>Any insight would be appreciated...
As a user, do you prefer to work with a program such as NotePad, that forces you to close a window before opening another, or with a program such as MS-Word, that allows you to work with several documents at the same time?
From a UI perspective, that is, for the end-user, the second option you give is definitely superior. It may require
some additional work for the programmer, though.
In most cases, each form works like a separate user. The very first thing you need to do is to use private datasessions, to avoid the forms "stepping over" each other's aliases.
HTH, Hilmar.
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