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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Deeply Nested Menus (Re: YAWS (Yet Another Workbench Suggestion))
Message-ID: <2148@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 02:31:44 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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It should be doable. You would have to have a new menu manager and a new window
an IDCMP flags "NEWMENUS". When you get a NEWMENUS message you get the address
of the menu structure, like you do with gadgets. There would have to be one
changed field: NextSelect would have to be a pointer to a menu. And there
should be one new field: MenuID... though this could be consed up.

And if you do go into the menus, add "scrolling menus": if there are more items
than will fit on the screen, when the mouse gets to the bottom of the screen
the items start scrolling up as you move the mouse. Then dPaint III will be
able to deal with lots of fonts (:->).

Also, a window flag MENUPOPUP would be nice. It would *stack* the top-level
menus, and the rest of the menus would appear off to the side. It shouldn't
be too hard... and it would defuse potential legal action from the fruity
folks...

Even better... make it a Preferences setting!
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