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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: pie menus
Message-ID: <963@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 23:36:45 GMT
References: <5104@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <5104@sigi.Colorado.EDU> andreas@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Andreas C. Lemke) writes:
>I've heard of a (new) kind of menus in which items are arranged like a
>pie chart.

I seem to remember Apple doing some research into pie menus.
Unfortunately, I don't know if this was original and don't have any
references.  There is an implementation for NeWS.  Off hand, I'd think
that they'd take much more screen space than traditional popups, so any
cognitive advantage would be a trade-off.

Ken
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