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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
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Date: 11 Jun 90 14:06:54 GMT
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In article <41795@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you) writes:
>NO CHECKBOXES! Ugh! Ack! Bad Interface Karma!

I certainly hope the person who thought up the methods for rebuilding the
desktop, getting bi-directional Fast quality Imagewriter II printing, and
getting a PostScript file out of the Laserwriter driver will spend his or
her next life as a gnat on a warthog's bum.  [speaking of karma]

>You don't turn them on with a silly checkbox somewhere, though. You turn
>them on by creating a sub-folder in the apple folder and sticking stuff in
>it. The name of the sub-folder is the menu-item that roots the hierarchical
>menu, and the stuff in the folder is on the menu.

Amen.  This is exactly right.

>Then you make sure you
>only allow one level of hierarchical menu to keep people honest.

What if I don't want to be honest?  Why do you want to keep me that way?

--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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