# Metadata
Platforms: desktop, server OS: mac, windows, linux Introduced: 1.0 Security:
# Syntax
enable [menuItem itemNumber of] menu {menuName | menuNumber}
# Params
- itemNumber : The number of a menu item, from top to bottom of the menu. The first menu item is numbered 1. (Horizontal lines count.) - menuName : The name of a menu in the current menu bar. - menuNumber : The number of a menu, from left to right. - button : Any button.
# Examples
enable menu 2
enable menuItem 3 of menu "Text" -- menu in menu bar
enable menuItem 4 of button "Edit"
# Description
Use the enable menu command to enable a menu or menu item so it can be chosen.
When used to enable an entire menu at once, the enable menu command applies only to menus in the current menu bar. To disable a menu associated with a button, use the enable command.
On Mac OS systems, the Apple menu does not have a number and cannot be enabled or disabled. Menu numbering starts with the menu to the right of the Apple menu.
Since a LiveCode menu bar is implemented as a group of buttons (one button per menu, with the menu items as lines in the button's text property), you can indicate a menu by specifying its button. Disabled menu items have an open parenthesis ( at the beginning of the line for that menu item. When used to enable a menu item, the enable menu command removes the open parenthesis from the beginning of the specified line.
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