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- From: EEE92002@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: Advice on C needed
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:17:55 GMT
- Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- >In article <932620162602@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> EEE92002@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
- >>o Displaying icon-specific menu's in the same window
- >
- >You shouldn't be displaying icon-specific menus, as this prevents the
- >user from easily seeing what can be done by your application - see the
- >RiscOS style guide. The right way to do it is to fade options not
- >applicable to where the menu button was clicked. So - how do you do
- >that?...
-
- Mmm. Well, perhaps Acorn should read their own style guides.
- Just look at !Printers, on the printer configure window, there must be
- at least four or five icon specific menus.
-
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- Thanks anyway,
-
- Neil Spellings
- EEE92002@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM.COMPUTER-CENTRE.IBM3090
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