Re: menu questions

["Mark A. Tapia" <markt@dgp.toronto.edu>]

Kaveh Kardan (kaveh%taarna.UUCP@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU) asks:
  1) How does one make a tear-off menu in MCL?
  2) How does one put icons in menu-items (like the apple menu does)?

Since tear-off menus occupy screen real-estate, you might consider using
popup menus which appear only when the mouse is pressed down for a certain
length of time in a relatively stable position. Guillame Cartier has
pop-up pull down menus that are available by ftp from cambridge.apple.com
in his archived contribution file: 
    pub/MCL2/contrib/Cartiers-Contribs-1.1.sea.hqx

My marking-menu package which implements pop-up multi-level radial
(direction sensitive) menus is also available from the same site in
    pub/MCL2/contrib/menu-enhancements.sit.hqx

The apple menu does not contain icons, it contains special characters,
namely the apple character which is option-shift-k in the Chicago font.
The menu-enhancement package contains methods for creating "check-mark"
characters for menu items.

mark