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The Interface Designer
The Case of the Pushbutton Menus
Our boys are hot on the trail of a controversy... how far will it take them?
Issue: 4.5 (May/June 2006)
Author: Toby Rush
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Article Length (in bytes): 9,761
Starting Page Number: 44
RBD Number: 4517
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Home of Jim Sampson, 5675 North 88th Street, 7:22 am
"Hank! Charlie! I thought you guys would never show up!" An older, uniformed man switched the megaphone to his other hand to shake hands with the detectives. "Hey, Louie," he shouted to another officer. "Detectives Hank Marsh and Charlie Sanders are swoopin' in to save the day."
Marsh smiled. "Whadda you got, Phil? Hostage situation?"
"Nah, he's up there by himself, but he's threatening to release a poorly designed application if we don't meet his demands."
"What kind of application?"
"Some word processor or something. He claims that every window in the program -- even the document windows -- are modal dialog boxes."
Sanders shook his head. "Good grief! What are his demands?"
"Says something about shutting down Apple... he's so crazy we can't get a straight answer out of him."
"Mr. Sampson, this is Detective Marsh," Hank yelled through the door. "Detective Sanders and I would like to come in and talk to you about your demands."
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