Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NOT (click to type) in NeXTStep? Message-ID: <56056@brunix.UUCP> Date: 12 Nov 90 03:52:27 GMT References: <1990Oct28.165341.6949@cs.cmu.edu> <8516@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 18 In article ea08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric A. Anderson) writes: >is the solution taken by many X applications. Alternately you can have >the menus pop up with a key held down ala xterm. I personally prefer >this strategy, I like my menus to be close to the window I'm working in >and having them right below the title bar or something like that is very There is a much nicer option built into WS, just enable the right mouse button. Then clicking on it brings up the menu right where you are. This is quicker than anything you mentioned. Now if NeXT just would ennable us to tear off submenues in this mode... BTW: If you move the menue off the screen (Preferences or dwrite) then you also save critical screen real estate with this strategy as well. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet