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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Pop-up menu CDEF
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.155421.1568@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 15:54:21 GMT
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In article <8665@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) writes:
>BTW, I haven't actually seen either the CommToolbox or 7.0 popups but my
>impression is that CommToolbox popups don't have those down arrows while the
>7.0 ones do.  If true, this inconsistency might make it hard to do what I
>suggest above.
>
>Popups have got to be the most non-conforming item in existence.  I can
>honestly say I have NEVER seen a popup that behaves well and conforms
>reasonably to the current HIN.  (I sure hope 7.0 is better.)

I've written a popup menu CDEF that conforms to the newest Human Interface
Guidelines (the little arrow and everything).  It also handles non-standard
MDEFs correctly.  It does NOT check if the system script has a right-to-left
text direction.  Is anybody interested?
I suppose I could also post source (Pascal and and a teeny bit of assembly
language).

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