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From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 and tear-off menus
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Date: 2 Aug 89 21:32:24 GMT
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In article <846@mrsvr.UUCP> hallett@mrsvr.UUCP (Jeff Hallett) writes:
>Where does one come by this "somewhat commercial INIT" named TOM (tear-off menus)? 

Check the back pages of MacWeek.

Meanwhile, I feel compelled to point out that their implementation
of tear of menus is not quite as elegant as the Radius implementation
(for example).  The "tear off menu" is actually a window that has the
menu items drawn in it.  when you want to make selection from the menu,
the code makes a call to popUpMenuSelect and pops up a menu in the window.
It looks right, but the overhead involved in popping the menu causes a
response lag and you must hold the mouse button down until the item you
want is inverted.  The Radius tear off menus are more like the Hypercard
tear offs; you need only click on the item you want, not click and hold.

I suggest that you get a copy of "heirDA" (in some versions it is called 
"DAMenuz").  It pops up a copy of the menu bar in popUpMenu format. It is
(I think) distributed as freeware and is available by anonymous FTP from
sumex-aim (36.44.0.6).



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Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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