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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Time for SubMenus
Message-ID: <804@utai.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 19:31:59 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 13 19:31:59 1985
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References: <256@ssc-vax.UUCP> <27000009@convexs> <492@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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In article <492@aero.ARPA> warack@aero.UUCP (Chris Warack) writes:
>(...)  The first item of the sub-menu would be next to the
>main menu item.  If the user moves the mouse directly on the sub-menu
>(still dragging), he can then choose any item on the sub-menu just as if
>it was a main menu. (...)
>
>What do people think?  BTW, how does the Amiga do it?
> (...)


As far as I can tell, this is exactly the Dandelion approach (except of course
that Xerox uses pop-up menus or menus fixed in a pane).  Would Xerox sue?
( :-(  , Apple!) (How do you make a face with a tongue sticking out?).

Such sub-menus are very easy to use.  It does not mess with the very important
capability of being able to look at all the choices available through menus.

Jean-Francois Lamy
U. of Toronto: lamy@utai.toronto.csnet, {decvax,allegra,utzoo}!utcsri!utai!lamy
U. of Montreal: lamy@iro.udem.cdn (from csnet: lamy%iro.udem.cdn@ubc.csnet) .