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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: Help with double-click recognition.
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Date: 6 Nov 89 19:03:37 GMT
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In article <12164@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, drforsey@watcgl.waterloo.edu
(David Forsey) writes:
> Just as a note, the "click-ahead" technique on radial selection
> menus was used by Terry Higgins at the National Film Board in
> Montreal.  He demo'd production level cel-animation software with these
> menus at SIGGRAPH'87.  I believe Don Hopkins was already working on his pies
> at that point, though had not yet published.  Certainly Ben Schneiderman
> saw the menus, and talked with Terry at length at that time about the
> click-ahead scheme.
Terry had already demonstrated the same software 3 months earlier at SIGCHI
in Toronto.  I believe he came up with the idea before Don.
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