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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I make the Menu Bar disappear
Message-ID: <367@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 7 Apr 89 18:16:53 GMT
References: <1554@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <1554@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> wade@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Gary L. Wade) writes:
>In article <28192@apple.Apple.COM> kmcentee@Apple.COM (Kevin McEntee) writes:
>*Does anyone know of a quick and dirty way that a multifinder application can 
>*make the menu bar disappear?  Like in HyperCard?
>
>I think that Apple ought to provide some kind of trap call to perform this
>feature in some future System release so we would KNOW that it won't break
>on us...what does everyone else think?

I think that they shouldn't.  

One of the most important of the User Interface Commandments is: "The
*user* is in charge here."  Killing the menu bar is a great way to
remove that control and confuse the user.  Certainly, if you want to
write a program that does that to the user, that's your business, but
that doesn't mean that Apple has to help you do it.  

Remember that one of Apple's biggest assets is the user interface,
they have little motivation to help us break it.

Kent Borg
kent@lloyd.uucp
or
...!hscfvax!lloyd!kent

P.S.  The fact that *they* do it in HyperCard doesn't necessarily make
it a good idea.