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From: francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: idea -- sideways scrolling menu bar
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Date: 16 Oct 90 22:16:05 GMT
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In article <90289.160406BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu> BRL102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ben Liblit) writes:
>Rare though it is, I have occasionally seen so many items in the menu bar that
>they run straight off the right edge of the screen.  Menu bar real estate taken
>up by goodies such as SuperClock add to the problem.
So don't run SuperClock.  It's evil.
>
>So ... how about sideways scrolling menu bars?  I'm thinking of the same sort
>of thing as a vertically scrolling menu, but left-right.  Like a scrolling
>menu, a scrolling menu bar would behave normally unless there were too many
>items to fit across the screen.  I suppose little arrows in the upper corners
>would let the user know that there are more items off in a given direction.
>

Could be done with an MBDF resource.  Sounds like something we'd want to
be extremely careful with.  What if it hangs, & you can't do anything from
the menus?

Anybody in c.s.m.programmer ever do anything like this?

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