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From: Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click
Message-ID: <9546@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 13:20:47 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon School of Comp. Sci.
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In article <13954@csli.Stanford.EDU> dayglow@csli.Stanford.EDU (Eric T. 
Ly) writes:
> It's one of those religious issues, I believe, so NeXT may want to let
> the user decide via a preference panel or something.

Given the way that the NeXT is designed with respect to menus, it would be 
difficult to just allow focus on cursor as a preference.  Think of a screen 
setup where there is no background path from where your cursor is to where 
the application's menu is.  This means that you would have to potentially 
cross windows from other applications.  As you do, you focus in turn on 
each window along your cursor path.  By the time your cursor gets to the
menu area, the menu you are interested in is long gone.

However, one way to allow focus on cursor might be to force the user to 
enable the menu mouse button when they enable focus on cursor.  This way,
access to an application's menu no longer requires cursor movement.

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