[syslinux] Final line of menu selectable even if it is disabled

[Matt Sephton]

On 5 September 2012 16:28, Ady Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> From: matt.sephton at gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:53:41 +0100
>> To: Syslinux at zytor.com
>> Subject: [syslinux] Final line of menu selectable even if it is disabled
>>
>> I have a menu conf as follows:
>>
>> LABEL enabled, use as item
>> LABEL disabled, use as description
>> SEPARATOR
>> LABEL enabled, use as item
>> LABEL disabled, use as description
>>
>> In this situation, I expect the cursors to be able to select from only the two enabled lines.
>>
>> However, the final disabled line is also selectable.
>>
>> Even if I put a final separator and/or disabled label the final line of the menu is still selectable.
>>
>> Full conf: http://pastebin.com/U6zQVbt6
>>
>> So there seems to be an edge case scenario that means the final line of a menu is selectable when it should not be.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
>  It was already noted by someone else before
>  ( see http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-April/017463.html ) but I
>  don't know if something was done about it.
>  To be accurate, the specific "disabled" menu entry is "selectable" (while
>  it shouldn't), but other than that, you can't do anything with it;
>  you can't actually take any action, other than to select a different
>  entry. In other words, while that last "disabled" menu entry is "selected",
>  keys like "tab" and "enter" are not going to do anything.
>
>  Yet, strictly speaking, that menu entry shouldn’t be "selectable".

Let me know if there is an official bug tracker and I will report it there