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From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple Menu Items
Message-ID: <6023@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 26 May 91 12:31:58 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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From an earlier article (whose thread of contributors is too long to include
:-)  )

>> 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...

MasterJuggler also uses this scheme, and it works well for me also.  Holding
off on System 7.0 till I can use MasterJuggler - I have real need of several of
its facilities daily.
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