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From: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you make the little 'down'-arrows in pop-up menu boxes?
Message-ID: <3708@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 22 May 91 09:05:21 GMT
References: <0E010021.sv4hwa@gla-aux.uucp>
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <0E010021.sv4hwa@gla-aux.uucp> glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin) 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.

Unfortunately, it won't work if the popup CDEF isn't there - under system
6, for example.  I use a little PICT of the arrow and draw it at the
right-hand end of the menu's shadowed box.  Not perfect, I admit.

Jeremy Roussak