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Re: Glass files

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From: Olaf Krumnow
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 16:05
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tb@liszt.thorn-emi-crl.co.uk (Tim Browse) writes:

>A quick note to say that a number of people have commented on 
>adding menu templates to the Glass format.  Someone even posted 
>a suggested format (thanks!).  However, I'm going to stick to my 
>decision not to include more than windows and icon names in the 
>first version.  The reason is that although the proposed menu 
But don't delay it to nuch, as menus are  at least as important as
windows. To be exact, there are more applications using menus
than using windows ;-)

>extension was good, it didn't go as far as it could.  I've seen some 
>ideas from TMOTA re: configurable menus, configurable hot-keys 
>for menu items etc, and I'd rather do it in one clean sweep, than 
>add a half-hearted attempt and bodge it later on when more time 
>is at hand.
Nor does the window definition you have for now. As you said, it could
be extended any time by anyone. And the editor doesn't have to change
the existing tools for manipulating menus, just exceed, if additions
come up.

>As to the Glass relocatable module (I'm liking this idea more and 
Yeah.

Olaf.

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