Re: Heirarchical Apple Menu?

[Robert Rivkin <rrivkin@umbc.edu>]

SevenHills publishes, as part of "Super Menu Pack", a "Control Panels" NDA
which is a hierarchical menu for the apple.

Bob


On 21 May 1997, Joseph Klein Annapolis wrote:

> Paul Schultz  <pschultz@med.wayne.edu> wrote:
> >One thing I think is convenient on the Mac is the heirarchical
> >sub-menus under the Apple menu. (giving access to control panels,
> >etc.)
> 
> Little history lesson:
> 
> When Apple developed System 6.0 for the IIGS, Apple deemed heirarchial
> menus non-user friendly.  A few years later when Mac System 7.5 came out,
> Apple decided that heirarchial menus were useful enough to be included in
> the System Software.  Apple had quit development for the IIGS at this
> point so Apple never got around to building heirarchial menu support with
> the toolbox, Finder, and the rest of the system software.  
> 
> Nobody as far as I know has written a new control panels NDA or patched
> the current one to emulate Mac System 7.5.  With fewer and fewer people
> having time and interest in writing IIGS software, I'll doubt this ever
> will be written.
> 
> I found that owning an accelerator and a _fast_ hard drive improves the
> time with opening the control panels window.  I have no complaints with
> the time it takes to open the control panels window on my system, even
> though it is an extra mouse click to open an individual control panel.
> 
> Geoff
> 
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