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From: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Defualt actions for System Requesters
Message-ID: <369@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 22:43:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  2 22:43:43 1986
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
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In article <1247@amiga.amiga.UUCP> jimm@homer.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>>
>>Pop-up menus, via requesters!  The race is on ...
>>..Bob
>
>I'm curious about what Bob means..  I could use a good race. 

I meant just that.  I am not a fan of pull-down menus, where you have to
keep your finger on the mouse button, etc.  What I'd rather see is:

User brings the mouse to some area on the display and clicks the 'menu'
button.  Instead of a row of items across the top of the screen, a
menu structure appears, centered under the position of the mouse.
From there, user can do whatever s/he wants (including ignoring the
menu).  When the time is right, the user can click the 'select'
button over the menu item desired.  If that creates a sub-menu, then
that's what happens ... again, centered under the current mouse pointer.
when the final selection (last in the submenus or whatever) is
selected, the menu goes away.

If the user decided that the 'menu' button wasn't what was wanted,
just clicking the 'menu' button again clears the menu.

These pop-up menus would be easy to implement with the new
requesters under 1.2 ... the only hard work would be getting
in front of Intuition for menu selections ... and that ain't hard!

Of course it would mean a new user-interface for the Amiga ... 
instead of pull-down menus, you get pop-up menus.   Actually, Jim,
I don't see why Intuition couldn't provide these via a prefererences
switch, or other such means.  Any thoughts?

BTW, thanks for *really* fixing the DisplayBeep() problem in beta 2.
I won't mess with you.

..Bob
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