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From: tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich)
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Subject: Re: System 7 talk: Hierarchial Apple Menus
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Date: 26 Jun 90 23:29:37 GMT
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>> What would be nice is if each DA or application or whatever had some
>> type of context list that you made that would allow only the DA's &
>> applications you want to appear in a given application.  For example
>> it would be nice to have unstuffit and binhex to be in the Apple
>> menu of *only* my NCSA Telnet and AppleLink programs.

>Interesting idea. Maybe one could extend "apple menu folder inside system
>folder" to "apple menu folder in same folder as application". Launch Word 4
>and get all the DAs etc. from the system folder + Word Finder from the
>apple folder within the folder Word 4 is in. This sounds to me like a
>much neater solution than hierarchical menus - especially if you can use
>symbolic links to avoid real duplicates.

Yes.  This is something like having "local scope" in a programming
language.  One could set up a small collection of "local" DAs & apps that
are particularly useful with a given application, and they wouldn't
be swamped by a lot of irrelevant ones in the same menu.

It would still be nice to have a second menu (or perhaps a submenu)
listing all the other "irrelevant" DAs & apps also (the "global" scope),
so that if you found you suddenly needed one of them, you could still get
to it fairly easily, without leaving the current application.
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