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From: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click
Message-ID: <55093@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 16:01:26 GMT
References: <1990Jun7.002601.4978@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1990Jun7.002601.4978@midway.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Well, you must either have a different NeXT computer or different preferences
>application, or I was not clear what I wanted. Moving the menu around is pretty
>much useless. The menu has to be on the left-hand side because the submenus
>appear to its right. Moreover, the menus will still occupy a lot of space on
>the left somewhere, and the bar noting the application will still be empty.
>
>How do you get pop-up menus (on the bar?) ?
>
>/ivo welch


I usually enable the right mouse button as the menu button using Preferences.
This gives you a pop-up of the main menu when you hold down the button you
specify (so the two buttons no longer behave identically).

Preferences does not allow you to move the default menu location all the way
off the screen or even such that only the title of the menu appears at the
bottom of the screen.  To do this, use the Shell and type the following:

  dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuX "   0"
  dwrite GLOBAL NXMenuY "  20"

This puts the menu at the bottom left of the screen with only the menu title
showing.  To put the menu completely off the screen, change NXMenuY to zero.

Edward Jung
Systems Strategy/Architecture
Microsoft Corporation