[GUI] MacOS Menu Bars (was: Re: Portable GUI levels)

[seth@cql.com]

I would say one menu bar per autonomous window, not one per application.

On 27-Jan-2003 Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
> nick.name@inwind.it wrote:
> 
>> Can someone give me an example of a famous application under linux wich
>> uses two different menubars in two different windows? Nothing comes to
>> my mind.
> 
> seth@cql.com wrote:
> 
>> Not just in linux, any "more than one menubar" app anywhere, on any 
>> O/S?
> 
> I can't think of any either, but then I use MacOS more than Linux or 
> Windows.
> Does that mean that it would be OK for a toolkit to support just one 
> menubar per application on non-MacOS platforms?
> All allegedly cross-platform toolkits I know treat a menubar as a 
> property of a window or even as an ordinary widget that you can place 
> inside a window, which causes several problems for the Mac OS 
> implementations of those toolkits.
> A related problem with Mac OS is that when you close the last window of 
> an application, the application doesn't terminate, it's menu bar is 
> still there. You can still open a new document from the menu. When you 
> click on the icon of an open application that doesn't have any windows, 
> a new empty document window should be created. I know of no 
> cross-platform toolkit that supports this behaviour.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
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Seth Kurtzberg
M. I. S. Corp.
E-Mail: seth@cql.com
Date: 27-Jan-2003
Time: 16:45:43

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