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From: chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
Message-ID: <41915@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 90 23:56:07 GMT
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dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>Generally I agree, but I suspect you haven't thought this through.

I try. Probably I'm not perfect.

>But how do you "only allow one level of hierarchical menu"?  Do you
>disallow folders from being nested more than one deep?  Or if not,
>what do you do when they are more deeply nested?

The software ignores nested folders. If you think about it, that might be an
advantage, because then you can easily disable stuff in the Apple menu by
copying it into a folder in the same hierarchy, rather than sticking it off
in a corner somewhere and then trying to remember where it should go to turn
it back on.

>As I say, the basic idea is a good one.  I hope you are sufficiently
>supportive of it to try to work out the details, and -- if they can be
>worked out well -- to try to convince Apple to adopt it.

What I've been told is that it won't be in 7.0 (which actually makes sense.
The software isn't done, but we're far enough along that all the manuals,
examples,t raining material, books, etc, etc, etc would all have to be
changed, and that's a production nightmare) but it will be considered for
down the road. So an open mind is being kept. Right now, the focus is fixing
bugs, not adding new functionality and I'd personally HATE to find out
system 7 slipped because of something like this.

Especially since (hint, hint) what HierDA did for the old Apple menu, an
INIT can do to the new Apple menu. This wouldn't be a tough thing to graft
on the system with a patch of some sort.


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Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

Wherefore could I not pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and
'Amen' stuck in my throat. --Macbeth