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Subject: Re: Apple Menu Items
Message-ID: <1991May27.082015.6617@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 08:20:15 GMT
References: <1991May25.231736.1675@cs.umn.edu> <34901@mimsy.umd.edu> <3239@shodha.enet.dec.com>
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In article <3239@shodha.enet.dec.com> m_herodotus@csc32.enet.dec.com (Mario Herodotus) writes:
>-In article <34901@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) 
>        How about just changing the way the menu reacts if you release the
>mouse before pulling right?  With this method you could still open the folder 
>by releasing the button while the folder is hilited, and if you drag right, 
>and you could open the application/CDEV/whatever that is inside the folder.
>
>        I think this is reasonable, a little different then things were done
>in the past but so are a lot of things about system 7.
>
>	I guess that part of the problem is that whenever we are presented 
>with a hierarchical menu we assume that mousing to the right is the only choice
>we have.  Could the interface guidelines be changed to allow selection of the
>item that caused the hierarchical menu to appear?  (Is this ever addressed in 
>the guidelines?)
>
>	This would give us both choices, select a folder...folder opens.
>Select something inside a folder...that item opens.  (it could even be a 
>second folder with a hierarchical menu of its own!)

Interestingly enough, this is *precisely* how the old HierDA worked
on sys 6.0.x. I kinda miss old HierDA, too... not near as much as
DfaultD, tho...

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