Re: need name for hierarchical menus

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From: Wayne Mesard
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 14:46

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Sorry to post.  My mailer choked on the address.

From article <836@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU>, by cs178aas@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins):
> In documenting some recent software, I've had a heck of a time
> referring to hierarchical menus.

> Suggestions appreciated.

SunView calls them "pullright menus" in the programmer's
interface/documentation and "walking menus" in the user's guide (as in
"Menus can be strung together ... so that the user 'walks' to the right
down the chain of menus in order to make a selection.").

Both terms seem intuitive, in that they both describe the _action_ taken
by the user, rather then the logical relation between menus.  Either
would be appropriate in documentation.

-- 
unsigned *Wayne_Mesard();                     MESARD@BBN.COM
                                              BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA

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unsigned *Wayne_Mesard();                     MESARD@BBN.COM
                                              BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA

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