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From: dwb@Apple.COM (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 3 button systems (was  A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc)
Message-ID: <7660@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 11 Mar 88 22:51:40 GMT
References: <9790@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <2290017@hpsadla.HP>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2290017@hpsadla.HP> ashore@hpsadla.HP (Alex Shore) writes:
>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.)
	Well, this is just plain bad design to start with.  All three
of X (I presume, I haven't seen the problem or played with X much)
SunView (the same goes) and NeWS will pop menus up "near" the cursor but
will move them so that they fit on the screen.  Although that brings
up one more advantage of pull-down menus, presuming they're short enough
to fit on a single screen, you can predict where things are going to be
quite accurately.  With pop-up menus it's much harder because you have
to guess where the origin will be.

	David W. Berry
	dwb@well.uucp                   dwb@Delphi
	dwb@apple.com                   973-5168@408.MaBell
Disclaimer: Apple doesn't even know I have an opinion and certainly
	wouldn't want if they did.