[Pythonmac-SIG] Is the menu enabled?

[James B. Wilkinson]

Is there a way to get the toolbox to tell me whether a given menu is
enabled or not at a given time. I'd prefer not to have to redraw the menu
bar if I haven't actually made any changes in that property. Right now the
only thing I can think of is to keep an instance variable in the
application that gets set every time the enabled/disabled status of a menu
changes. That would probably work, but I worry about having the variable
somehow get out of step with what it's supposed to be tracking, and I'd
prefer to have direct access to the real truth.

I see that the Menu module implements the GetMenuHandle() function, but I
have no idea how to use it in Python. In C, I think I could use the handle
to get to the MenuInfo record and look at the enableFlags. How to do that
in Python is beyond me, and I don't know how to learn anything beyond what
I've done: type "import Menu" and "dir(Menu)". That tells me that
GetMenuHandle() is there, but not how to use it. Is there a good way to
answer questions like this, or do you just have to know?

Thanks.


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