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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 18:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  9 18:50:00 1986
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Nf-From: infoswx.UUCP!bees    Jun  9 17:50:00 1986


  >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:
Me either, I agree!

  >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.
  >[...]	Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept

Your description of a menu button popping up menus where the mouse is
sounds a bit like the way the 5620 terminal (AT&T Teletype, also know
as a Blit) works.  You press the mouse key while in an active window,
and it's high level menu pops up.  Right under the mouse cursor, unless
you are at the bottom of the screen.  If you release the mouse button
without selecting an item, the menu goes away.  Sub-menus can appear
either when items in the first menu are selected or when they are
pointed at.  Menus can be graphic as well as text.

The diff here is in the number of button strokes.  I want as few as
possible.  It makes more sense to press the menu button and let its
release be either a select or ignore, rather than having to press the
menu button, press it again to select something, then press a select or
forget it spot.

Ray Davis