[386] in java-interest
Re: ExtraMenu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gottlieb)
Mon Jun 19 10:44:15 1995
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 09:19:25 CDT
From: Brian Gottlieb <brian@arl.wustl.edu>
To: Matthew Flanagan <M.Flanagan@itd.uts.edu.au>
Cc: hotjava-interest@java.sun.com, java-interest@java.sun.com,
leonard@dstc.edu.au, matt@uts.edu.au
In-Reply-To: <199506190505.AA02155@sequoia.itd.uts.EDU.AU>
Matthew Flanagan <M.Flanagan@itd.uts.edu.au> (Matthew) writes:
Matthew> The applet i've written is called ExtraMenuApp and what it
Matthew> does is add a menu to the hotjava menu bar. The items in this
Matthew> menu all go to a URL of some kind when they are selected. See
Matthew> http://www.uts.edu.au/~mpf/java/extramenu.html for further
Matthew> details.
Matthew> What I would like to know is:
Matthew> - Is it a bad idea adding extra menus to a browsers menu bar?
Matthew> - Is this likely to break with future releases of hotjava?
Matthew> - What other uses can people see for this other than the basic
Matthew> bookmark style menu I've implemented at the moment?
This menu-bar altering behavior seems to be common in Emacs. For
instance, the mailer I use (VM) adds a menu for things like sorting or
sending mail. Mailcrypt, a PGP support package, adds a menu to
encrypt or decrypt a region of text.
While a standalone menu applet on its own may not have much practical
use, if it were incorporated into another applet it could be very
useful. For example, a drawing applet with a menu to choose the
drawing shape or color.
brian
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