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From: alexis@panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Re^2 System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
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Date: 15 Jun 90 02:16:56 GMT
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[Tony Jacobs mentions that you don't have to move exactly horizontally to get
into an H-menu, and then David Matuszek guesses that this is new functionality]

In fact, this feature was born at the same time as H-menus. I refer you to
Inside Mac, V4. The time you have to get positioned in the child menu is (as I
recall) dependant on the doubleclick time interval.

I'd like to point out that it is acceptable, according to IM4, for a menu item
be selectable, and also a parent of an H-Menu. Because of this, I don't see
any problems with Tony's suggestion: any folders in the Apple Menu folder can
be selected, just like in the current Alpha release. But they also pop down a
menu containing the contents of the folder, which can be selected individually.

As for the intuitiveness of this technique, it maintains that critically
important 1-to-1 correspondance, and *nobody has to use it* -- but if they
do, it will be _very_ obvious what's going on.

(Now that I've revealed the Truth, perhaps some HI programmer at Apple can try to prove or disprove what I've said, and save us all from lots of pointless
debate...)

Alexis Rosen
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