Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Menu Bars
Message-ID: <4650@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 88 17:36:44 GMT
References: <8804091916.AA20039@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <8804091916.AA20039@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>The logical thing to happen if the menu-bar is larger than the window is that
>>it gets clipped.  I imagine that in this case, you can use sliders to see
>>the rest of it.
>
>	Huh?  The whole idea is to be able to access the menu quickly,
>	not to have to manipulate it like a window to get to the right
>	header.

Agree. However I did see (on TV) someone using either a Mac or Mac-II to access
a menu of many, many selections - too many to easily fit on the screen. The
region of the drop-down box was the same as for a fair-sized normal menu,
and when the mouse moved beyond the bottom of that box the other menu items
scrolled up into the active region; no need to mouse right down to the bottom
of the screen.

Hmmm, I'm sure there are lots of tricks like this that can be done with menus
to give them more flexibility without limiting their ease of use.

John
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