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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1409@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 91 07:14:22 GMT
References: <5338@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1991Jun23.150149.16969@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <5342@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1991Jun24.094738.29131@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jun24.094738.29131@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <5342@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>> Agreed.  Could you refresh my memory about the standards for mouse
>> buttons on the Amiga?  One button brings up the menubar, right?
>
>The two buttons are SELECT and MENU. A third button for ACTIVATE would be
>better, but it's too late for that.
>
>In any case, one button brings up the menu bar  ...

May I remark that this is IMHO one on the strong features of the Amiga
GUI: Because of the existence of this extra menu button, we spare one
line on the display for better purpose! When you look at Windows/Mac/ST,
they permanently display the menu bar, thus wasting this display line.
And they *MUST* display it, because else (at least with the one-button
Mac mouse) there were no way to know for the system, does the user just
want to paint to the upper line or wants he to invoke the menu.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk