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From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: select multiple items MDEF
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Date: 16 Mar 89 01:03:28 GMT
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In article <8903140439.AA21958@jade.berkeley.edu> DFJOHN01@ULKYVX.BITNET (GMAIL_FLAG_PERSONAL_NAME) writes:
>I have given a lot of thought to your MDEF idea but after checking out Apple's
>Human Interface Guidelines I'm afraid that it may not be so great an idea. The
>reason is that if someone needs 'multiple selections' then it is probably
>time to implement a dialog box with appropriate check and radio buttons, edit
>text fields and popup menus. This gives the user a visual reference for the
>selections made and data entered.

I think the motivation for this MDEF idea was to alter the behavior of an 
existing application.  It is much easier to paste in a new MDEF (or patch
the MenuSelect trap as I suggested) than it is to convert the menu to a
dialog box.

I do agree that multiple selections would be better implemented as a
dialog box.  

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Murat N. Konar        Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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