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From: vrm@blackwater.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Vasile R. Montan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: How do you make the little 'down'-arrows in pop-up menu boxes?
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Date: 13 May 91 18:21:10 GMT
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I understand that the user interface guidelines for pop-up menus have
been revised.  Originally, the menu box simply had a 2 pixel 'shadow';
now, it is supposed to have a little arrow that points down to the
right of the text in the menu box.

So how is this little arrow generated?  I suppose it wouldn't be too
hard to draw it by brute force (by calling the appropriate QuickDraw
routines), but this involves the hassle of calculating the string
length, etc.  Is there some easier way to generate the arrow?

Thank you!

--Kurisuto
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