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From: judd@tove.UUCP (Judd Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: default menu item selection
Message-ID: <110@tove.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 16:28:12 EST
Article-I.D.: tove.110
Posted: Wed Jan 30 16:28:12 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Feb-85 00:34:48 EST
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Reply-To: judd@tove.UUCP (Judd Rogers)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Summary: 


The default action for a menu poped up via a mouse button press should be to
do NOTHING.  What if your finger slips off the button and the last thing you
selected is some sort of delete?!
The Macintosh and Xerox Star system do it this way.

For novices this is best as it is least confusing.  but for experts...?

A command from the keyboard might be better for an expert (Macintosh supports 
this).
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