Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!well!brent From: brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Creating 'cascading' menus in MS Windows Summary: You can't get there from here... Message-ID: <7831@well.UUCP> Date: 4 Dec 88 20:39:27 GMT References: <2265@virgin.UUCP> Reply-To: brent@well.UUCP (Brent Southard) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 25 In article <2265@virgin.UUCP> grendel@virgin.UUCP (Ron Lussier) writes: >There has recently been considerable use of cascading menus in Apple Mac >applications. Other Workstations are also using these hierarchical menus. For the most flexible implementation I've seen, look at what the Amiga's Intuition allows. >Has anyone written code to generate cascading menus using MS Windows? Is >it possible? And would it be possible to get some sample code to do this? I haven't seen sub-menus on any Windows application yet, but it *is* certainly possible. Unfortunately, the SDK does not presently support them, Microsoft has mentioned that they are being considered for a future version of Windows. To implement cascading menus now would take a lot of grunt work, and possibly writing a menu manager from scratch, since there aren't any easy hooks into the present menu handler. Good luck! Brent -- Brent Southard | Everybody's trying to be a friend of mine, Usenet: ...well!brent | Even a dog can shake hands. - W. Zevon CIS: 76657,415 | We fell into love, love's a very deep hole. GEnie: b.southard | - Loudon Wainwright III