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From: dir@cbosgd.UUCP (Dean Radin)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: graphical menus
Message-ID: <489@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 23:52:22 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.489
Posted: Mon Oct 31 23:52:22 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Nov-83 20:31:27 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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I am designing a system that uses high-resolution color graphics CRTs.

I'd like to implement a graphical menu in which the user would
move a cursor into a box then press a button to select that item.
Most of or possibly all of the menu would be displayed as a tree structure.
The user could skip from any item to any other item simply by moving
the cursor around the screen; the only reason for showing the
tree structure is to provide a kind of associative map to remind
users how the various tasks are related.

Does anyone have experience using such a menu?  Or recommendations
for implementing this idea? 

Dean Radin
AT&T Bell Labs - Columbus