Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!amiga!jimm From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Deeply Nested Menus (Re: YAWS (Yet Another Workbench Suggestion)) Message-ID: <2506@amiga.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 19:35:55 GMT References: <2669@utah-gr.UUCP> <2148@sugar.UUCP> <2188@ur-tut.UUCP> <2467@amiga.UUCP> <2315@antique.UUCP> <138@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA Lines: 28 In article <138@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: ) )Speaking of pausing over menu items, the Xerox Lisp window system has a )really nice feature that I haven't seen in any of its imitators: a )message window. On that system, if you hold over a menu item for more )than a second or so, a message is put into this window saying briefly )what would happen if you selected this menu item. This is REALLY nice: )self-documenting menus! )-Peter Schachte This is one of the things I like about Lotus 123. Talk about keyboard mnemonics, by the way. And another benefit of the visicalc/lotus UI is that it is easy to describe to someone how to select an action. "You type /WOGY" (or whatever) as opposed to "From the Workstation menu, select Options, select the Group option and click on "Yes" in the confirmation dialogue box." I mean, some people are in a hurry. Followups to comp.sys.amiga, please. jimm -- Jim Mackraz, I and I Computing amiga!jimm BIX:jmackraz Opinions are my own. Comments regarding the Amiga operating system, and all others, are not to be taken as Commodore official policy.