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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 17:57:07 EDT
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> besides pop up a menu, like save a document for instance, then the poor
> fellow that pops up the wrong menu and runs the mouse across the menu bar
> to the right menu might cause something to happen that he didn't want.
> Active items in the menu bar are unforgiving, not the kind of interface for
> "the rest of us."

You can't trigger something by running the mouse along the menu bar even if the
items are active. You would have to release the mouse button, just as you now
do when running down the "Files" menu. There are active items there, but you
can't set them off by accident either.