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From: ashore@hpsadla.HP (Alex Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 3 button systems (was  A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc)
Message-ID: <2290017@hpsadla.HP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 16:08:11 GMT
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In response to your comment in favor of pop-up menus, I use a pop-up
menu system on a HP electronic design system.  Perhaps it is the fault
of the system, but if you pop-up a menu, you might as well have gone 
to the top of the screen.  This is because the menu picks will run you
off the screen if you start in the lower third or right fifth of the 
screen.  The system isn't smart enough to scroll the menus up or to 
the left to allow you to access the selections that are off screen.

I would rather have had a pull-down, tied-to-the-top menu system
rather than have to start over when I see the pick I want is off-
screen.  (In this case, the particularly troublesome menu is 
dynamic, hence you don't know from one session to the next where
items are going to be, so you can't learn it.)

- Alex Shore
  HP Signal Analysis Division
  Rohnert Park, CA 

  Note:  These comments are not made as a company representative.