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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: Dialog interface (was Re: Movable-Modal WDEF 1.01 (LONG))
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.010136.3087@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Mar 90 01:01:36 GMT
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In article <1990Mar9.193139.1194@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu
(Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
> In article <16589@well.sf.ca.us> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
> >
> >	I should also point out that FullWrite was the first application
> >(that I am aware of) to make menus avail inside of modal dialogs - but they
> >also wrote their own menu and window managers so they could do that
since they
> >were their own 'Interface'...
> 
> First COMMERCIAL application, maybe.  But I remember a hack way-back-when
> which made the (modal) Standard File Dialog modeless.
FullWrite also implements an extra menu bar inside some of its dialogs. Maybe
this reminds us a bit of MW Windows, but it could be a good idea on a large
screen...

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu