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View Ref-File10.2.9  Toolboxes                                                  TOS

In some cases there is not enough room in an application's menu bar or 
dialog boxes to accomodate all of the functions.

Instead of overfilling the menu bar or squeezing too much information 
into a dialog, one should fall back in such cases to a toolbox or a 
local menu bar in windows.

In nearly all cases this allows the corresponding functions to be 
housed in the user interface - and in a clear manner into the bargain.

Toolboxes are generally offered at the top or right edge of a window, 
but can also be movable.




Local menu bars and toolboxes are utilized by the resource editor 
Interface, for instance, shown above. It can be useful if a toolbox 
can be hidden temporarily, in order to be able to show the actually 
more important information in the window; this is permitted by the 
text editor Grismo, for instance.

See Also: About the AES   Style guidelines