sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Simon Peter Gatrall) (07/22/88)
This talk of hierarchiacal menus scares me. You should have very good reasons for using h-menus. Anytime people go wild with these new features they end up with messy user-interfaces. This is not to say that h-menus are necessarily bad, just that you should think twice before making your user interface any more complicated than it needs to be. After all the success of the Mac is because of its user interface. Pop-up menus are the same. For an interesting comparison, look at Adobe Illustrator 88 and Aldus Freehand. They are an interesting contrast. Although Illustrator is somewhat difficult to learn, it is much cleaner that Freehand. There are definitely trade-offs. Freehand seems to have a lot of power, but you have to go through a maze of dialog boxes, menus, etc. to do anything. Neither program is perfect, (far from it) but Illustrator doesent need anywhere near the amount of garbadge to do the same things. -Simon Gatrall sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu