It's impossible to fully convey an interactive experience like pie menus in words and static pictures on web pages. The best thing is to download the software and try them yourself. But many interesting pie menus only run on obsolete or discontinued window systems and operating systems, or require outrageously expensive software and hardware to run. Fortunately, many pie menu demos are preserved on video tape!
Don Hopkins has produced a video tape about pie menus, including the best cuts of video tapes from many years of pie menu research and development, and an instructional demonstration of ActiveX pie menus. If you're planning on using ActiveX pie menus in your own application, or developing your own pie menus, this video will give you lots of ideas that you're free to use for your own purposes and improve upon.
For a partial transcript and screen snapshots from the tape, you can see Natural Selection: The Evolution of Pie Menus, a web page about a talk given by Don Hopkins to BayCHI, October 13 1998, at the Xerox PARC auditorium.
I'm selling this tape to recoup the cost of editing it together from many video tapes I've taken over the years, and producing an up to date tutorial about ActiveX Pie Menus, software that I'm distributing for free (including source code). I'm asking $40 a copy, and offering an educational or programmers discount of $25. If you can afford more, I'd be glad to throw in lots of printed documentation and papers -- just tell me what you're interested in!
To order a copy, please contact Don Hopkins by email at xardox@mindspring.com.
