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From: mitel!spock!kim@uunet.uu.net (Kim Letkeman)
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Subject: Re: Need help w/Cascading Menus
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Date: 7 Sep 90 11:18:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu's message of 5 Sep 90 19:23:24 GMT

In article <1990Sep5.192324.24707@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John Bruno) writes:
| I'd like to let the user select "Two-B" without having that third
| menu come up.  Will I have to write my own menu-handling beastie to
| do this?

Well, if you do, then you'll have to follow up with some documentation
explaining your departure from the Motif style.

There are always slight improvements (subjectively speaking) one can
make to a user interface, especially for one's own personal use. But
departing from an accepted standard (especially one so pervasive as
Motif and MSW) is a huge risk. Reviewers of software always comment on
such inconsistencies and they are not generally pleased.  Neither are
users who have to learn the quirks of a package's UI.