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From: bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Floating palettes
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Date: 16 Feb 89 13:28:02 GMT
References: <7554@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <1979@pur-phy>
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In article <1979@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>In article <7554@csli.STANFORD.EDU> wilson@csli.UUCP (Nathan Wilson) writes:
><I'm considering using floating palettes in an object oriented graphics
><editor (as per a large number number of graphics programs including
><MacPaint 2.0).  I vaguely remember someone mentioning an article on
><how to do them.  Does any one have this reference?  Or for that matter
><does anyone have any example source code that does them?  Are such
><palettes considered a serious violation of the user interface
><guidelines?  Is there or will there ever be an Apple approved
><mechanism for them?  Is there something people like better?
>
>There is an excellent article in the April 1988 issue of MacTutor,
>complete with source code.  It's very long, so you probably will want
>to get the source disk.  There are a couple of earlier articles on
>tear off menus, but they are not as complete as this one.  I have some
>floating palettes in the application I'm currently working on, but
>they have been customized to my application, so I'm not sure how
>useful the code would be.  It would probably be easier to just send in
>for the generic version.
>
>Personally, I like floating palettes, as long as they are not used to
>excess.  I'd like to see some Toolbox calls to implement floating
>palettes and floating tear off menus, but I don't see it happening any
>time soon.  Now what I really want the fabled complete rewrite of the
>ROMs.  I'd even be willing to shell out a couple of thousand dollars
>for a board swap for my Mac II....
>
>-Sho



  Has anyone seen the Tear Off Menu init from Mindvision Software ? It adds 
toms to every program, including the finder ! I have been using it for a couple
of weeks without any problems. It's great for drawing programs, especially with two screens.




			Mike Bell
			bell@eniac.seas.upenn.edu



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