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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
Message-ID: <1724@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 04:14:31 GMT
References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <346@esquire.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <346@esquire.UUCP>, sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
> On the other hand, what do multi-button, popup menu people think about
> the new tear-off menus in Hypercard (I like them)?
Even tho' I have played with hypercard I had no idea what a tear-off menu was.
..i had to ask someone...they said..."Some Mac people think floating menus 
are new....  to me it's a floating menu...this is a standard part of SunTools 
and Apollo Dialog...nothing new at all...
actually a refinement of what you call the tear off menu ... is that you
click inside a window and a menu pops up...tho' if you *only* have one
button on your mouse this might not be practical.

(I must confess I think one button mice are obsolete...the above being just
one reason...i also think mechanical mice are worthless ...On Apollo's and
Sun's it is possible to "program" each mouse button ...so if you want the
first button is "SELECT", second can be "OPEN AN EDIT SESSION" on the file
name i am pointing at, third might be "ICONIFY" (make window into an icon) )