Re: DRWM

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <1994Jan5.024131.1388@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
Chris Deschu <cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>In article <1994Jan04.225007.129697@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu>,
>Dave J. Roberts <dave@vegiwopr.calpoly.edu> wrote:
>>Your Mac CDev sounds neat, but:
>>1. Alot of applications/NDAs do "nifty" things to the menu bar, such as
>>draw clocks, add menus that let you switch applications, etc... but one
>>problem is that they don't check to see if the menu bar is there or not
>>before drawing their nifty stuff. Also, still other apps do
>>HideMenuBar/ShowMenuBar's of their own, which would force the
>>CDev/INIT/whatever to catch all tool calls to ShowMenubar. Finally, you'd
>>want to use the SHS hierarchic init or write your own heirarchic code,
>>which (either way) wouldn't be too hot. If you think you're up to
>>something like this, by all means go ahead :)
>>
>>Dave J. Roberts
>>
>
>Well, If I was anywhere near up to doing something like this, I'd
>probably be working on it. (I'm still cutting my teeth on C. :)
>I figure that someone might take a look at an idea if I post it.
>Then again, maybe not... 
>	
>	Here's another one... How about having the menu bar turned
>off by default when you enter an application. When the cursor hits the
>top scan line of the screen, the menu bar is turned on, and it stays on
>until either the user selects a menu item, or the cursor leaves the 
>screen area occupied by the menu bar without selecting anything. This
>one seems much easier to implement, and would still give us the full screen
>to work with. This could probably be added as a feature to something
>else, such as AutoMenus?
>

Oops, I forgot to add, that I think their Hierarchic init should
probably have been implemented as a tool. Perhaps SHS can persuade
Apple to include it in 6.0.2, if it materializes someday...


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