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From: cderossi@apple.com (Chris Derossi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Hierarchical Apple Menu INIT
Message-ID: <13172@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 91 07:11:24 GMT
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To all who have expressed interest in seeing the Apple Menu in System 7 get 
extended so that it has submenus which follow your folder hierarchy:

I am 80% done with such an INIT. It has been working fine on mine and several 
tester's machines now for a while. I'm keeping its distribution very limited until
it's done, though; I don't want to have to manage multiple pre-release versions
floating around everywhere.

HAM (for Hierarchical Apple Menu) will be released at the same time as System 7
makes its debut.

HAM makes submenus for each of your folders in your Apple Menu Items folder.
If any of those folders contain folders, they become further submenus (up to
five levels which is the limit in the Menu Manager). Aliases to folders work just
like real folders. If you create a loop by using aliases, HAM will detect this and only
show you each folder once in a single chain.  HAM will open anything that can
be opened, just as if it were in the normal Apple menu, including applications,
documents, folders, control panels, server aliases, and desk accessories. It will even
let you select and open folders, even though those items will have submenus.

All of the above currently works. All I have left to do is add some controls for a
few of the user-changable parameters, and fine tune some of the speed.


Chris Derossi
Blue Meanie
Apple Computer, Inc.