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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you make the little 'down'-arrows in pop-up menu boxes?
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Date: 21 May 91 23:04:18 GMT
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In article <1756@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, vrm@blackwater.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Vasile R. Montan) writes:
> 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?

The simple answer is -- use the built-in popup control definition!  It makes
life simpler, and makes it easier if Apple decides to change the user interface
of popups in the future.

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