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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Pull down menus.
Message-ID: <1550@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 14:47:45 GMT
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In article ... ack@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Andy J. Williams) writes:
> In article ... peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >If nothing else, Apple has earned a big black mark for pull-down menus.

> How would a new user who has no idea what is going on feel about buttons
> in random places on the screen, never the same, and try to find the one
> that does what he/she wants?  This way everyone knows what the hell is going
> on and more time can be spent USING the Mac instead of learning applications.

Who said anything about random buttons on the screen? You can easily set up
your pop-up menus so that when you hit the right mouse button a menu appears
right under the mouse with all the top-level topics (DA, File, Edit, etc...)
visible. From there on it behaves just like the Mac system... without having
to move the mouse all over creation.

You don't have a two-or-more-button mouse? Sorry. My point that the solution
to this design flaw (pull-down menus) is inappropriate on systems that don't
share it remains valid.
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