Friday, April 18, 2008

How do u decide what actions should go into Menu and Tool bar?

Whenever we design a desktop application ..we often need to use Menu and Tool bar to do some actions when user clicks on either of menu or tool bar items...How do u decide which actions go into Menu and which actions go into Tool Bar...

Say u have an editor/view or composite(in general say GUI area) and depending on some specific widget selection (or some other restrictions ) only u want to allow some action to be done , then u can put those actions in corresponding menu items...

If u want user to give freedom to excute an action no matter what ever is selection or state of any widget in GUI , then all those kind of actions go into Tool Bar...

Any comments ???

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