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From: jtw@wuee1.wustl.edu (Trent Wohlschlaeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New (?) idea for MF menu bar icon
Message-ID: <171@wuee1.wustl.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 89 21:50:07 GMT
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Reply-To: jtw@wuee1.UUCP (Trent Wohlschlaeger)
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In article <2430@iscuva.ISCS.COM> jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) writes:
>In article <347@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>>In article <700@unocss.UUCP> dent@unocss.UUCP (Dave Caplinger) writes:
>>>Better still, why not do away with the ugly thing altogether, and put the
>>>menubars for seperate applications in the windows themselves, scrollable
>>>in a way similar to the recently posted MenuScroll INIT...?

>>As for menus at the top of windows, I think I like them and I think
>>Apple agrees.  Have you seen the Knowlege Navigator video?  Did you

>I _REALLY LIKE_ menus at the top of the screen.  I can just 'throw' the mouse
>up and rest assured in the knowledge that the mouse won't overshoot the menus.

>Just an opposing opinion.

Another opposing opinion:

This is not a BAD idea, if your application has a MAIN window.
I consulted on an application for which this was not the case.

If the application doesn't have a MAIN window, 
who decides which window gets the menubar?  The programmer?  The user?
What if the menubar is on an inactive window?  More activateWindow glue?  
Move the menu to the active window?  I hope not.
This would seem to me to be most confusing.

I guess I just don't feel that this is a workable concept
for applications with multiple windows.

Trent