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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
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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

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