Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!usenet From: usenet@ucbvax.ARPA (USENET News Administration) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Time for SubMenus Message-ID: <10531@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 20:19:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10531 Posted: Thu Oct 3 20:19:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 02:18:28 EDT References: <256@ssc-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: korn@ucbcory.UUCP (Peter "Arrrgh" Korn) Distribution: net Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Um, unless I'm mistaken, the Mac already supports sub-menus in a way that the Amiga never will. You see, you can define you're own menu types. If you notice the rightmost menu "Keypad" in MacTerminal, you've got an example of a custom menu-type. To make a sub-menu, you'ld simply define you're own menu type. True, it's not supported by the OS routines in that the Mac will tell you which item in the sub menu you called, nor will you be able to make command-key assignments the way you would for normal menus, but you still can have them. The major trouble with sub-menus, it seems to me, is exactly how you would implement them. I personally dislike the way the Amiga did them. It lacks the polish and class of the Mac's envorinment. I'm not quite sure just how I'd implement them myself. But!!!, if you really want Apple to do something such as this, I'd suggest that you make a program w/sub-menus (custom ones) and then send a copy to Apple and the net, to get a response. I'd like to see such myself, but I'm not sure whether it can be done in a smooth, clear, and polished way.