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Re: Max menus?

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Subject: Re: Max menus?
From: Eric Williams <eric at oxalyn dot com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:18:04 -0700
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On Sep 29, 2007, at 12:23 PM, TJ Hanson, PhD wrote:

> I recently wrote a program that has about 200 submenus and almost 600
> menu items. Although the IDE got somewhat sluggish toward the end, it
> was able to handle this load without difficulty.
>
> My question is this: Does REALbasic have an upper limit on menus? I
> may be expanding this program in the future.

Wow. That is a *lot* of menu options. With that much clutter, I'd say  
your problem isn't RB's limits; it's the limited patience and manual  
dexterity of your users.

Have you considered presenting the functionality associated with the  
menu items in a more static, browseable format - such as cascading  
listboxes (like the Finder's column view)?

Eric Williams
Oxalyn Software
http://software.oxalyn.com/

AE Monitor
http://software.oxalyn.com/AEMonitor/


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