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From: msc@canth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: pie menus
Summary: more polished pie menus
Message-ID: <13862@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 88 19:25:47 GMT
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In article <8891@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
> In article <5104@sigi.Colorado.EDU> andreas@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Andreas C. Lemke) writes:
> >Do pie menus exist?  On which system?
> 
> Yes, on NeWS 1.0, and possibly by now on NeWS 1.1, though I haven't

The National Film Board of Canada has an RGBA paint program (whose
name I can't remember) written by Terry Higgins that uses pie menus.
Terry has put together a beautiful implementation of the idea. He did
it before Don Hopkins too.

Terry's pie menus are small.  They use symbols instead of text.  A
power user can make a selection simply by making the gesture (pen down,
slide in direction of selection, pen) with the bitpad stylus.  The
menu won't appear if the gesture is completely quickly.

His RGBA Paint Program runs on a Silicon Graphics Iris and is very
swell indeed.

--
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."