Article View: comp.sys.mac
Article #2558Re: System 7.0 and tear-off menus
From: Murat N. Konar
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1989 22:45
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1989 22:45
18 lines
1444 bytes
1444 bytes
In article <13005@well.UUCP> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) pointed out
some advantages of the TOM way of implementing tearoff menus vs. the Radius
way. The advantages were:
- TOM is able to handle menus longer than the screen height.
- TOM properly handles menus with heirarchical menus.
- Because of the way TOM works, it is more likely to be compatible with
non-standard MDEF menus.
My response:
These advantages are all very real. My point was that the developers could
have gone that extra mile and made TOM "feel" better. Clicking and holding
to make a menu selection from a tear off menu feels unnatural to me.
____________________________________________________________________
Have a day. :^|
Murat N. Konar Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<27324@srcsip.UUCP>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!indri!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!srcsip!gorby!mnkonarReferences:
<269.24AE0D88@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> <908@accuvax.nwu.edu> <26944@srcsip.UUCP> <13005@well.UUCP>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!indri!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!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: <27324@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 7 Aug 89 22:45:32 GMT References: <269.24AE0D88@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> <908@accuvax.nwu.edu> <26944@srcsip.UUCP> <13005@well.UUCP> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Reply-To: mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN Lines: 18