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From: alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: HAM (or whatever it's called)
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Date: 30 May 91 01:53:47 GMT
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In article <1991May29.165016.9560@sequent.com>, iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) writes:
> 
> 
> I got this response from claris.  It sounds like $$$ is getting in the
> way of the release of a GREAT product.  %^-(
> 
> >I have seen, and posted myself, lot's of postings about a hierarchical
> >menu app for System 7.0.  Could someone please post a definitive spec
> >sheet about this??  The basic bio-sheet would do:
> 
> >1.  What is it called officially (if it's known yet)
> 
> Hierarchical Apple Menu (HAM, for short)
> 

Unlike Dean, I don't report to Chris, but he's still gonna be pissed at me.

I've looked at a few system extensions that provide Heirarchical Apple Menus.
(At least one was shown at the developer's conference recently.) While I
haven't actually seen Chris', my understanding is that it is far superior to
all the other current development efforts.

However, all of them suffer from one cosmetic problem: the submenus do not
have nice color icons like the regular Apple menu has.

Do people think that this is a significant thing? I'm fairly confident that
supporting them is technically possible, but would mean an additional
development effort (lots of extra work for Chris, as if he doesn't do enough
anyway :-) ). With that in mind, would everybody be happy if such a feature
were to appear in a second version to be released at a future (undetermined)
date (if at all), or would they rather wait to have it in the first version?

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