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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines / Appendix - Appendixes
Appendix C - Checklist


Pop-Up Menus

  • Do pop-up menus have a downward-pointing triangle and a one-pixel drop shadow? While the menu is showing, is its title inverted and is the current value checked? If the menu must be scrolled, is this indicated by a triangle pointing up or down?
  • Are pop-up menus used to allow the user to choose only one of a set
    of several choices? Pop-up menus should not be used for choosing
    more than one item from a set of several choices.
  • Do you avoid adding menu items that contain verbs (actions) in
    pop-up menus?
  • Is the same font used for the normal state and the open state of a
    pop-up menu?
  • Do you avoid making the pop-up menu narrower in the open state
    than in the closed state?


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