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From: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Question about Menus  (esp. under 2.0)
Keywords: menus 2.0 intuition
Message-ID: <18383@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 19:44:41 GMT
References: <16204@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <16204@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) writes:
>What happens when an Intuition menu is longer than the screen
>is high?

Starting with the 2.02 Kickstart release, Intuition protects the system
when menus exceed the screen's boundaries.  Rendering is clipped so the
system doesn't crash.

GadTools library has menu layout routines that will arrange your
menu items into multiple columns if you have too many to fit in one
column.  You could also do this yourself if you like.

Don't forget that you can't have more than 31 menus, 63 items per menu,
and 31 subitems per item.

If you have that many menu items, perhaps a different model is appropriate.
For example, a scrolling list of fonts has replaced the font menu
in most applications.  Even Apple doesn't recommend using their
scrolling menus, from a stylistic point.

>   //  / Thom Cleland                       / It is easier        /

     Peter
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