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2.0 On Windows, it's conventional to indicate the default menu item by displaying it in bold. The default item is the menu item which will be executed if you double click on an item. For instance, the system menu on a window's icon in the top left has 'Close' in bold, since this is what happens if you double click on the icon. Eclipse should conform to this convention and use bold to indicate default menu items on platforms where this is supported.
I believe this only happens in menus controlled by the window manager on Microsoft Windows. I don't think it is not something that applications are supposed to do. I've verified by looking in Microsoft Word and Lotus Notes.
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This is incorrect. It happens in any menus where the application has designated a menu item as default. MS Word obviously doesn't use this, since there is no 'default' action in a word processor. It doesn't perform any action when you double click on a word. However, other applications, such as Outlook Express do conform to this convention.
SWT: Do you have any interest in providing the ability to set a default menu item on Windows XP?
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The API has been there since 1.0. See Menu.setDefauttItem().
Sorry, I looked for it, but didn't see it.
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This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
