Re: Advice on C needed

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From: EEE92002
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:17

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>In article <932620162602@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> EEE92002@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
>>o Displaying icon-specific menu's in the same window
>
>You shouldn't be displaying icon-specific menus, as this prevents the
>user from easily seeing what can be done by your application - see the
>RiscOS style guide. The right way to do it is to fade options not
>applicable to where the menu button was clicked. So - how do you do
>that?...

Mmm. Well, perhaps Acorn should read their own style guides.
Just look at !Printers, on the printer configure window, there must be
at least four or five icon specific menus.


Thanks anyway,

Neil Spellings
EEE92002@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM.COMPUTER-CENTRE.IBM3090

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