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From: ack@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Pull down menus.
Message-ID: <8334@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 88 14:56:59 GMT
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <7398@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> elcond@garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Gregory Dow) writes:
>I've been thinking about an extension to the standard Mac interface where
>a multiple-button mouse is simulated using modifier keys.  I propose that
>option-clicking (or control-clicking) should display a hierarchical popup menu
>of the titles in the menu bar.  For example, in a simple program with just
>an Apple, File, and Edit menu, you would get the following:
>
>			-------------
>			| A       > |
>			| File    > |
>			| Edit    > |
>			-------------
>
>This menu would popup next to the mouse location and behave as a normal
>hierarchical menu.


A DA that does this already exists.  It is called Popup and I believe it
is available on SUMEX.  Once you activate the DA it will pop this exact
menu up whereever you click with Shift and Command down.  It is a very nice
thing to have if you are using a large screen.  I use it alot with BigScreen
Init (which is almost the same as having a large screen.)  It would be nice
if this were an INIT or a CDEV.  You have to select the DA each time you
reboot.


>  Gregory Dow			ARPA:   elcond@garnet.berkeley.edu



-Andy






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