Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!uunet!easy!slau!slau From: slau@slau.lrcd.com (Stephen Lau) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Distribution: world References: <5338@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1991Jun23.150149.16969@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <5342@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <1991Jun24.094738.29131@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <14300@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 27 Jun 91 21:04:00 PST Organization: hawaii.amiga.user In article <14300@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) writes: >In article lron@easy.lrcd.com (Dwight Hubbard) writes: >Well, this is a safer topic than any other I seem to have picked up, so >I'll offer a partial answer. :) That's what I think :) > > 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" > > It's more consistent with the idea that the menu belongs to the window. > > Problems: > The window may not be large enough to display the menu. What about using popup menus?? You don't have to go to the top to select functions, and you don't have to worry about the window not large enough to display the menu. > >>-Dwight Hubbard INTERNET: lron@easy.lrcd.com - >>-Kaneohe, Hawaii USENET : ...!uunet!easy!lron - > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lucky guy. ^^^^^^^^^^ Are you kidding?? Have you try buying some stuff in Hawaii?? :) -- ============================================================================ To err is human, to really screw things up, you need a MS-DOS machine. *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* |Stephen Lau UseNet: uunet!easy!slau!slau | |Honolulu, Hawaii Compuserve: 72557,3652 | | GEnie: C.LAU1 | | Plink: Amiganoid | | Internet: lauch@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu | *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*