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- From: okrumnow@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Olaf Krumnow)
- Subject: Re: Glass files
- Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:05:32 GMT
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- tb@liszt.thorn-emi-crl.co.uk (Tim Browse) writes:
-
- >A quick note to say that a number of people have commented on
- >adding menu templates to the Glass format. Someone even posted
- >a suggested format (thanks!). However, I'm going to stick to my
- >decision not to include more than windows and icon names in the
- >first version. The reason is that although the proposed menu
- But don't delay it to nuch, as menus are at least as important as
- windows. To be exact, there are more applications using menus
- than using windows ;-)
-
- >extension was good, it didn't go as far as it could. I've seen some
- >ideas from TMOTA re: configurable menus, configurable hot-keys
- >for menu items etc, and I'd rather do it in one clean sweep, than
- >add a half-hearted attempt and bodge it later on when more time
- >is at hand.
- Nor does the window definition you have for now. As you said, it could
- be extended any time by anyone. And the editor doesn't have to change
- the existing tools for manipulating menus, just exceed, if additions
- come up.
-
- >As to the Glass relocatable module (I'm liking this idea more and
- Yeah.
-
- Olaf.
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