Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekgvs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!davidst From: davidst@tekgvs.UUCP (David Stubbs) Newsgroups: net.cog-eng Subject: Re: default menu item selection Message-ID: <1042@tekgvs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 15:21:22 EST Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1042 Posted: Tue Feb 5 15:21:22 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Feb-85 06:44:26 EST References: <722@ihuxa.UUCP> <778@sdcsla.UUCP> <1336@orca.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 62 Enough of this introspection! Since this is net.cog-ENGINEERING, I'm enclosing a bit of REAL DATA on pop-up menus collected from my smalltalk system. Maybe you would like to develop some reductions or better formats for data reporting or controls for an experiment that I could run for you. Maybe we could get some results to publish here instead of speculation. Eh? David D. Stubbs Tektronix Electronic Systems Laboratory uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekgvs!davidst USPS: Tektronix, Inc. Electronic Systems Laboratory, MS 50-383 PO Box 500 Beaverton OR 97077 Phone: 503-627-2627 -------- My current pop-up menu system provides either the previously selected item or the item selected when the cursor was moved out of the menu (ie, when the selection process was canceled) as the "Item highlighted upon menu pop-up". The first two data items represent the item initially selected and highlighted and the system time when the pop-up was called for. The second two items represent the selection and the system clock at selection time. The time required to data log the first pair is included in the overall time (maybe we could change this). When "Item Selected" = 0, I moved out of the pop-up, canceling the transaction. The menu selections represent a variety of tasks including text editing and window manupulation. Item highlighted Millisecond Item Millisecond upon menu pop-up Clock Selected Clock upon selection 7 1986967 2 1988967 2 1990717 2 1991333 2 1992550 2 1993150 6 1994800 6 1995417 1 2012767 0 2015100 1 2015667 1 2016450 1 2022567 3 2023967 3 2031317 4 2032267 1 2051183 1 2052117 1 2085050 1 2086583 1 2101833 1 2102400 1 2109133 0 2110550 1 2111067 3 2113600 3 2118167 2 2119167 2 2125217 2 2125750 2 2143333 7 2144600 7 2153333 7 2153933 7 2157117 7 2157683 8 2191850 4 2193600 4 2197200 4 2198017 4 2198700 8 2199817 -- David D. Stubbs