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Article #2315Re: System 7.0 and tear-off menus
From: Murat N. Konar
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 21:32
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 21:32
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In article <846@mrsvr.UUCP> hallett@mrsvr.UUCP (Jeff Hallett) writes:
>Where does one come by this "somewhat commercial INIT" named TOM (tear-off menus)?
Check the back pages of MacWeek.
Meanwhile, I feel compelled to point out that their implementation
of tear of menus is not quite as elegant as the Radius implementation
(for example). The "tear off menu" is actually a window that has the
menu items drawn in it. when you want to make selection from the menu,
the code makes a call to popUpMenuSelect and pops up a menu in the window.
It looks right, but the overhead involved in popping the menu causes a
response lag and you must hold the mouse button down until the item you
want is inverted. The Radius tear off menus are more like the Hypercard
tear offs; you need only click on the item you want, not click and hold.
I suggest that you get a copy of "heirDA" (in some versions it is called
"DAMenuz"). It pops up a copy of the menu bar in popUpMenu format. It is
(I think) distributed as freeware and is available by anonymous FTP from
sumex-aim (36.44.0.6).
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Have a day. :^|
Murat N. Konar Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!srcsip!gorby!mnkonar From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: System 7.0 and tear-off menus Message-ID: <26944@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 2 Aug 89 21:32:24 GMT References: <269.24AE0D88@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> <908@accuvax.nwu.edu> <7211@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <846@mrsvr.UUCP> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Reply-To: mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN Lines: 26