Intelligent Menus

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It seems your 'Intelligent Menus' are not as intelligent as one would expect. Your implementation requires the developer to predefine a list of commands to be initially hidden, and these are then made permanently visible if the user ever uses them (until you reset all the menus).
The Office implementation does not normally hide commands initially, but hides little used commands when compared with frequently used commands in the same menu. Their 'reset usage data' command does the exact opposite as yours, as it unhides the currently hidden commands. This is the logic users now expect with modern menus, so the XT Command Bars implementation is therefore 'non-standard'.
Are there any plans to improve the Intelligent Menus feature to work in the same way as Office? Obviously I do not want to waste time having to implement my own code to do this if it's already on the way.

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rwfearnley Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 21 January 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote rwfearnley Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Intelligent Menus Posted: 16 December 2004 at 3:48am
	It seems your 'Intelligent Menus' are not as intelligent as one would expect. Your implementation requires the developer to predefine a list of commands to be initially hidden, and these are then made permanently visible if the user ever uses them (until you reset all the menus). The Office implementation does not normally hide commands initially, but hides little used commands when compared with frequently used commands in the same menu. Their 'reset usage data' command does the exact opposite as yours, as it unhides the currently hidden commands. This is the logic users now expect with modern menus, so the XT Command Bars implementation is therefore 'non-standard'. Are there any plans to improve the Intelligent Menus feature to work in the same way as Office? Obviously I do not want to waste time having to implement my own code to do this if it's already on the way.

Ark42 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 October 2003 Status: Offline Points: 291	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ark42 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 December 2004 at 9:53am
	Office menus, at least, my copy of Office XP, seems to work like the XT command bars. Menu items ARE hidden by default, and resetting usage causes them to revert to being hidden. No menu item that starts out shown ever hides itself. My Windows 2000 start menu, on the other hand, hides icons I havn't used in a while, and there is no concept of resetting the usage data.