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Read me for Help for Heir
The Why
I used to teach Mac novices DTP with a program (Aldus PM) that uses a lot of heirarchical menus. Novices have difficulty mousing around and heir menus are particularly difficult.
The What
When the user chooses a menu item that has a heir menu associated with it, the hier menu will be displayed (where the pulldown menu had been) and the user can select a menu item by clicking on it. This allows a hier menu item to be selected with out mousing gyrations.
The How
I am tail-patching MenuSelect. I call the MDEF so any hier menu should work.
The Who
I (Jon Kalb) am responsible for all the bugs, style lapses and spelling errrors. This hack could not have been accomplished with out the able assistance of:
Steve Fauré
Chris Haupt
Tim Hall
The source
This INIT — excuse me — extension was slapped together at the eleventh hour (literally) so the source code is not well… well it’s not well anything, but it does compile (under Think C) and that is good enough for a hack.