Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!easy!lron From: lron@easy.lrcd.com (Dwight Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 14:45:28 GMT References: <1991Jun24.094738.29131@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <14300@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jun27.115950.24857@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: You must be talking about someone else. Lines: 38 In article <1991Jun27.115950.24857@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article lron@easy.lrcd.com (Dwight Hubbard) writes: >> Good explanation, but you happen to have any Idea why the damn menus are in >> screen title bar instead of the title bar for the window were they belong?? > >Because they don't belong either place. They should remain invisible until >selected with the menu button, and pop up under the mouse with the last >selected option already active. I don't know about you but I find that annoying. >In article <14300@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: >> Benefits: (for clipping to window) >> Only that window will have it's graphic rendering halted, no other >> window would be affected, and other programs wouldn't appear to >> "freeze" > >That's not a benefit of putting the menus in the window title bar. That's a >benefit of drawing the menus through layers.library. You could do that with >the current menu sysyem as well. It'd just slow them down a bit. > >> Problems: >> The window may not be large enough to display the menu. > >No problem, just use scrolling menus. > >I suspect it'd be possible to write a handler like PopUpMenu that'd do >the job. Go for it. Know where I can get the source to PopUpMenu, I might see if I can find the time (before 1994 :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Dwight Hubbard INTERNET: lron@easy.lrcd.com - -Kaneohe, Hawaii USENET : ...!uunet!easy!lron - - BIX : lron - ----------------------------------------------------------------------