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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: <3727@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 28 May 91 06:16:12 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <0E010021.erbovh@gla-aux.uucp> glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin) writes:


>In article <3708@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) writes:
>>
>> 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.

>But (1) that is NOT part of the user interface for System 6, and (2) if
>you have the Macintosh Communications Toolbox installed, you DO have the
>popup CDEF.  (Just another plug for the CTB! ;-)

Surely you aren't advocating lack of consistency?  If the Gods
of the User Interface decree that from a certain date pop-up
menus shall have downward-pointing arrows, I would think that
an application should have those arrows, whether it runs under
system 7 or system 6.  I take you point about the CTB, though,
but isn't it the user who has to have installed it, rather than
the programmer? (forgive ignorance if I'm wrong on this,
please)

Jeremy Roussak