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Article #1291Re: What are menus?
From: Jonathan Krueger
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 08:13
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 08:13
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In article <10870@s.ms.uky.edu>, sean@ms (Sean Casey) writes: >[regarding pull-down menus] >>>They represent Postit(tm) notes stuck on your rolltop desk. >>Pull down menu's represent ... control knob type things on mechanical >>devices???? > >No, pull down menus represent Venetian blinds or pull down maps like >they had in grade school. It's the natural way to make your computer >selections... Close but no cigar. Pull down menus, IMHO, represent the small panels or doors that hide seldom used controls on equipment. Thus they represent something on your TV, not your desktop. The motivation is consistent: the controls are there when you need them, and the rest of the time the display doesn't look so `busy'. -- Jon "now where's the tuning eye" Krueger --
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!haven!vrdxhq!daitc!jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What are menus? Message-ID: <274@daitc.daitc.mil> Date: 12 Jan 89 08:13:37 GMT References: <3234@sugar.uu.net> <12907@steinmetz.ge.com> <10867@s.ms.uky.edu> <10870@s.ms.uky.edu> Sender: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil Reply-To: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) Followup-To: comp.windows.misc Organization: Defense Applied Information Technology Center Lines: 18 In-reply-to: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)