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From: dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Programming menus
Message-ID: <1378@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 89 22:29:00 GMT
Reply-To: dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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In reading IM, I've noticed that the menu manager seems to fall
short on a couple of points.

The idea of putting the menu information in a resource seems
quite useful, but it also gives a false sense of configurability.

I would think that each menu item would have a unique identifier
associated with it, and that the menu selection mechanism would return
that identifier.  That way, you could modify the menu during
development without having to recompile.  Instead, what you get back is
a packed pair of values giving you the menu choice by position.

Also, the menu key mechanism doesn't seem to be as useful as it
might be.  I don't understand why it is necessary to call MenuKey
to find out which menu item was requested.  Why doesn't the
keyboard input mechanism handle this?

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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
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