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From: pv9y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
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Subject: Re: Problem with hierDA 0.9967
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Date: 23 May 89 23:36:40 GMT
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Reply-To: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Adam Engst)
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In article <8419@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman) writes:
>Hello all.  This has probably been hashed out before, but...I got hold
>of hierDA 0.9967 recently and found that although it does a marvelous
>job of 'hierarchicalizing' the Apple menu, I have found that it has a
>serious limitation...it can only hierarchicalize ONE level, adn worse
>yet, if the command on the second level has further subcommands, even
>though it puts up an arrow next to the command, you can't select it.  If
>you do, it will simply vanish as though you had released the mouse while
>off the menu.  So, to clarify: I can only get one level down from the
>apple menu, and those commands on the second level that have subcommands
>a)do not have submenus and b)cannot be selected.  
>   Is this only me?  If not, is there a fix for this?  'cause I see no
>point in keeping it if this problem is unfixable...thanks.
>
>-JBZimmerman!

I'm not bothered by only having one level on hierDA, but I've noticed a
few anomalies with hierDA.  It gets confused when Suitcase opens and 
closes DAs between reboots, which isn't unreasonable, but it also doesn't
get along with Comment 2.0.  When Comment has a menu in the menu bar, the
Quit option is often grayed out and the only way to Quit out is to choose
the option from the hierDA menu.  Kind of a hassle.  Also, the AutoSave DA
that comes with WriteNow (at Cornell anyway), doesn't have a menu, but
hierDA gives it one, apparently from Camera or Snapshot or something like 
that.  hierDA and HigherMenus INIT don't get along.  Holding down the 
option key and selecting a hierarchical menu from the apple menu bombed the
machine every time.  Actually HigherMenus INIT is buggy anyway.  I stopped
using it because I got a lot more random crashes whenever I held down the
option key for any reason.  Otherwise a nice idea though.

Adam Engst