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Article #890Re: pie menus
From: Ken Lee
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 23:36
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1988 23:36
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In article <5104@sigi.Colorado.EDU> andreas@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Andreas C. Lemke) writes: >I've heard of a (new) kind of menus in which items are arranged like a >pie chart. I seem to remember Apple doing some research into pie menus. Unfortunately, I don't know if this was original and don't have any references. There is an implementation for NeWS. Off hand, I'd think that they'd take much more screen space than traditional popups, so any cognitive advantage would be a trade-off. Ken -- What's the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman? The used car salesman knows when he's lying.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!sgi!daisy!klee From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: pie menus Message-ID: <963@daisy.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 88 23:36:45 GMT References: <5104@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca. Lines: 14