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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
Message-ID: <791@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 12:54:06 GMT
References: <7655@apple.Apple.Com>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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Summary: Turnabout is fair play.

In article <7655@apple.Apple.Com>, lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
> In article <484@siemens.UUCP> wagner@gypsy.UUCP (Mike Wagner) writes:
> >If you define "pull-down menus" to mean "click a mouse button while the mouse
> >is over some labelling image to bring up a menu" then the Xerox Star (now

> What you described is what people generally call popup menus.

No, it's what *Mac* people call pop-up menus. Everyone else calls pop-up
menus the menu you get *under the mouse* when you click the menu button
on the mouse.

> I think the idea of displaying a list of menu titles in a fixed place is
> also part of the pull-down menu concept.  The user can also move the mouse
> over each title in turn to see all the command available.  Experienced users
> can take advantage of the fact that the menus appear in the same place each
> time, and can anticipate where on the screen an item will fall.

The user can move the mouse up and down the pop-up menu and in turn see all the
commands available. Experienced users can take advantage of the fact that the
menus always appear in the same place with resepect to the mouse and can 
anticipate what quick little move they'll make to reach an item.
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