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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
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Subject: Re: Re^2 System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
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Date: 15 Jun 90 01:16:36 GMT
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In article <14122@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee 
Matuszek) writes:
> I typically use.  I assume this is part of Apple's new hierarchical
> menu support?  Probably the applications I use have their own, older
> methods for doing hierarchical menus; in that case, things will

The feature of moving diagonally has been part of the hierarchical menu 
implementation from the start.  The Human Interface people spent a lot of 
time prototyping the exact behavior.  There are some values in parameter 
RAM that control the hierarchical menu implementation; perhaps yours are 
set improperly.  (I thought someone wrote a program to adjust these 
values.)

> >I've also noticed many good applications are giving the user the choice of
> >whether or not they want hierarchial memus or not. Good Idea. Claris to 
> 
> Bad Idea.  Creeping Featurism, otherwise known as the Unix Mentality.

I agree with you.  

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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