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From: jesup@steinmetz.UUCP (Jesup)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: When (1.2 and Manx) and How (pop-up menus)
Message-ID: <951@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 14:54:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: kbsvax.951
Posted: Fri Oct 17 14:54:59 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Oct-86 23:26:07 EDT
References: <969@tekigm.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@kbsvax.UUCP (Jesup)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: How pop-up menus (DMRs) work

In article <969@tekigm.UUCP> phils@tekigm.UUCP (Phil Staub) writes:
>	1. What is the latest estimate for release of DOS 1.2 (last I heard 
>	was sometime in November).

  According to Westchester, 1.2 is shipping to developers, will ship to
users inside of a month.

>	on it. Until I tried it, I was under the impression that only
>	pull-down menus were supported under AmigaDOS, but the explorer
>	program on this disk uses a pop-up menu.

  These can be created with 'Double-Menu-Requestors' (DMRs), or by putting
up requestors on mouse clicks (releases), using RMBTRAP.  DMRs require
a double-click to appear, RMBTRAP allows you to use the right button when
it's not on the menu line for your own nefarious purposes.

	Randell Jesup				jesup@ge-crd.arpa
	jesup@steinmetz.uucp			jesup@kbsvax.uucp
	rjesup.BIX