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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New HIG for pull-down/pop-ups
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Date: 22 Aug 90 09:27:35 GMT
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In article <44004@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
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>Use the Popup CDEF (ID 63) documented in the Macintosh Communications Toolbox
>reference.  It does some neat stuff, including using compressed type, ...

Since everyone is commenting on certain visual aspects of the interface, I
thought I'd throw in my opinion and get blasted also.  :-)

I think the use of compressed type in the new Standard File and Popup CDEF is
a bad idea.  It seems like an inelegant kludge that undermines the consistency
of the interface.  Why not just widen the list or menu to make more room?  If
there is plenty of space, then it doesn't seem unreasonable to just truncate
the oddball 50 or so character items.  I believe for popups the item should
be drawn wider and then erased if the widest item is the current selection.
I admit there are trade-offs but compressed type seems so... uhhh, ugly.

No offense intended to whoever thought of it but I just had to see if anyone
felt the same way.

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