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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: idea -- sideways scrolling menu bar
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.180614.5693@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 90 18:06:14 GMT
References: <160406@<90289> <70400076@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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In article <70400076@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
|> 
|> It would be so much simpler to just write an INIT to provide 2 lines of
|> menu items, rather than just 1.
Don't Apple people always claim that the reason they have a menu bar arranged
as it is at the top of the screen is you can hit it fast without having to
aim vertically? If you have 2 lines of menus, the advantage is is gone. How
about running an extra _column_ of menubar down the right side of the screen:

File Edit menu1 menu2 menu3
                           m
                           e
                           n
                           u
                           4
(with the option of doing the writing horizontally if the screen is wide enough)
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu