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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: menubar items without menus? (suggested enhancement...)
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 02:11:05 EDT
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In article <568@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>No, Switcher does not use this, if I understand the proposal.  First, the
>Switcher arrow is graphics, not a menu title.  Second, it does not go
>through the Menu Manager; instead, it intercepts mouse-down events in
>GetNextEvent and uses "raw" hit-testing to see if they occurred in the
>Switcher arrow.  This is not the same thing Chuq is suggesting.

Until I read Inside Switcher this week, I thought that it somehow used
the Menu Manager (until this reading, I was very confused when I
couldn't find the resources for Command-[, Command-], and Command-\).
However, this is all besides the point.  I was referring to the user
view of the interface.  To the user, the switcher arrow seems like a
strange menu title with weird properties.  The very fact that I have
described it as "strange" and "weird" should alert developers to the
fact that it is not consistent with the rest of the system, and
consistency is supposed to be an important feature of the Mac.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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