For this particular application, menus were the best way to go.
Convenient and easiest for the user.
TJH
On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Eric Williams wrote:
>
> 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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