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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Pop Up Menus....
Message-ID: <5687@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Feb-87 21:00:18 EST
Article-I.D.: dartvax.5687
Posted: Sat Feb 14 21:00:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Feb-87 09:06:50 EST
References: <787@crash.CTS.COM>
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Graduate Students
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Summary: Heresy!  I'm shocked!

In article <787@crash.CTS.COM>, frankb@pnet01.CTS.COM (Frank Boosman) writes:
> > I noticed that the new LSC has a pop up menu when you option-click in
> > the title bar of a window... I was thinking how nice it would be to be
> > able to do this in general.
> 
> Pop-up menus are okay in some circumstances, and even desirable for some
> uses, but not in title bars of window.  To wit:
> 
>           You should not change the shape of the zoom-window box
>           or change the interpretation of clicking on the zoom-
>           window box.  You should add no other elements to the 
>           title bar.  Except in the zoom-window box and in the
>           close box, clicking within the title bar should have no
>           effect.
> 
>           -- Inside Macintosh, Volume IV, page 9
> 
> Lightspeed C is great, but this one went against the rules.
> 

     Frank is exactly right here.  Everyone knows that when Moses
went up into the mountain, he brought back engraved in stone a
copy of Inside Macintosh, Volumes I through IV.  Haven't we
learned from history (Spanish Inquisition, centuries of religious
war, the "big/little endian" controversy) that authoritative
statements such as those made in IM (bless its name!) are never,
EVER to be questioned by ordinary mortals such as ourselves.  We
have only purchased the Macintosh, we have only parted with our
hard earned money, the fruits of our sweat, we have not nearly as
much merit as the sainted authors of Inside Macintosh.  Who dares
to question the sanctity of the title bar?  Banish them to
ever-lasting torment!  They have sinned!  Let all who pass them by
look the other way!

     Worse yet, the authors of Lightspeed C have been guilty of
the sin of PRIDE.  They have attempted to demonstrate more
programming expertise than the sainted ones, the authors of the
the operating system.  They have misused the sacred ROM!  They
have broken the sacred covenant:  THOU SHALT NOT DO ANYTHING
CREATIVE BEFORE IT IS DONE IN CUPERTINO.  Bring on the lashes, the
rack, the Iron Maiden.  Let those who have offended pay for their
sins in this life, to serve as an example to that fool who would
contemplate using the Macintosh for any heritical innovation.
Furthermore, for its role in this travesty, let the programming
language known as "C" be forevermore banished to the outer
darkness.  We all know that it was the sin of using "C" that led
to this horrible blasphemy.

     Have I stated your position correctly, Frank?