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From: dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: menu questions
Message-ID: <1991May7.001516.9699@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 04:15:16 GMT
References: <1991May6.191232.17156@searchtech.com>
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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In article <1991May6.191232.17156@searchtech.com>, chuck@searchtech.com (Chuck Howard) writes:
> I have two simple questions about menus on the MAC.
> 
> 1)  I remember reading in Inside MacIntosh I that
>     menus were limited to 20 items.  I've noticed
>     in more recent applications that this limit
>     has been exceeded.  So my question is, has the
>     limit been extended beyond 20?


Yes. I was not aware that there was a 20 item limit in the first place. A 
classic example is the font menu on the old MacWrite. If you had more than 20 
fonts installed, didn't they all show up? ....

> 2)  I've also noticed some applications use scrolling
>     menus.  Is this part of the toolbox?  I couldn't
>     find a reference to scrolling menus in Inside
>     MacIntosh.

Continuing with the above, when you had more menu items than would fit on the 
screen at one time, the menu would scroll automatically. This, I believe, is 
handled internally by the Menu Manager and it is not necessary for anyone to 
have to change this. The only improvement I can think of was the addition of 
the little arrows at the top and bottom of menus that were scrolled or could be 
scrolled (for the 128K ROM).

Dan

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