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From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: System 7.0 and tear-off menus
Summary: Make it user-selectable
Message-ID: <694@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 15:27:30 GMT
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Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Organization: WINCO, INEL, Idaho
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There has been a bit of discussion lately over System 7.0.  One of the
issues being discussed is tear-off menus.  Apparently, they're going to
be supported in the new system (no more hacks).  Several have said that
they thought that _all_ menus would be tear-off menus under System 7.0.

Here's some food for thought. (Is anyone at Apple listening??):

Let the user decide whether a given menu will be tear-off or not.  For
example, when I'm working on a HyperCard stack, I almost always tear off
the "Tools" menu, because I often toggle between the browse, button, and
field tools.  I think that with most programs there is one menu that is 
accessed more often than others, and which menu that is might be
different from user to user.  So let the user decide what tears and what
doesn't tear.  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tear off your "pet" menu,
but leave the others non-tear-off-able [for lake of a better word :-)]. 
This would prevent accidentally tearing off a menu you don't really want
hanging out in the air.

I don't know how practical this would be to try to implement, but I
think it's worth thinking about.  What does everyone else think?

-- 
Geoff Allen - WINCO Systems Engineering  |  Disclaimer:  WINCO doesn't believe
...{uunet|bigtex}!pmafire!geoff          |    in Macs, so of course these are
...ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff          |    only my own views.