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From: rap@peck.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Menu Tools used in Vibra?
Keywords: Menu, MENUPAC, Tools.h
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Date: 28 Sep 89 16:25:16 GMT
References: <2593@pur-phy>
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In article <2593@pur-phy> murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes:
>I am wondering if anyone has looked at the sources to Vibra, ( a recently
>It seems as though Fred Mitchell used either some homebrewed menu utilities
>or some commercial utilites.  The functions that I refer to are SetMenu,
>SetMenuItem, SetSubItemMenu, ....   These functions are I assume included
>through the Tools.h and probably linkedto an external library. 

I have not looked at the Vibra sources myself, but I will always remember seeing
the same kinda thing in an early FISH disk, either #14 or #16 in a program
called PDTerm.  Take a look at the menu tools in there.  For most applications,
they are QUITE sufficient.   What impressed me MOST about the way the author
himself used the menuing functions within his own source code was that
you could actually SEE the structure of the menu by the indenting style
that he chose to use.  Look at it... I can't do it justice here just
from memory.


Rob Peck