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From: u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu@utah-gr.UUCP (John M. Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: YAWS (Yet Another Workbench Suggestion)
Summary: Do menus recursively
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Date: 17 Jun 88 21:34:07 GMT
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Reply-To: u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@utah-gr.UUCP (John M. Olsen)
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Since everyone is putting in their suggestions for worbench wonders they
would like to see, how about making menus really recursive instead of only
two levels deep.  It seems like this would be reasonably easy to do, and
would make for really useful :^) 45 level menus and such.  Sure, it would
take a bit of care to make all those sublevels easy to find, and not go
off the edge or bottom of the screen, but it would add quite a bit of 
flexibility to the interface.  This would also make it easier to include
the interfaces to currently running programs (like the discussion about
those silly extra windows all over the place).

All you would need was one menu for external programs, where each top level
entry would be a program name which could have an entire menu subsystem
arranged vertically instead of horizontally on the program's "main" level.

I haven't looked at a menu structure recently (I'm at work now) but it seems
that the pointers are all there and it's just WorkBench that isn't being
freindly about it.

"To iterate is human.  To recurse, divine." -unknown

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