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From: fortinp@bwdls56.Berkeley.EDU (Pierre Fortin)
Subject: Re: DA's and MenuBar
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.193355.15457@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Reply-To: fortinp@bwdls56.Berkeley.EDU (Pierre Fortin)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Mar12.234442.13474@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar13.101646.23814@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Mar14.084731.14194@convex.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 19:33:55 GMT

In article <1991Mar14.084731.14194@convex.com>, rosenkra@convex.com
(William Rosencranz) writes:
|>In article <1991Mar13.101646.23814@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) writes:
|>>vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
|>>
|>>>Can a DA have a menu bar?
|>>
|>>Unfortunately, it cannot. A GEM restriction.
|>
|>strickly speaking, it can't be a GEM-controlled menubar, but there is
|>nothing stopping you from writing your own, say under the AC window's
|>title/status bar, or even popup menus. these would work more or less
|>like dialogs. just watch out for getting sued if you are successful :-)
|>

Have a look at STalker/STeno...  They can run as DA/PRG and menu bars
exist in either invocation.

|>--
|>Bill Rosenkranz            |UUCP: {uunet,texsun}!convex!c1yankee!rosenkra
|>Convex Computer Corp.      |ARPA: rosenkra%c1yankee@convex.com
                  
Cheers,                      
Pierre Fortin       fortinp@bnr.ca         (613)763-2598