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From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Derivatives of Small & Moore (was Re: Mouseprotect, etc. on Mega)
Message-ID: <3814@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 16:28:22 GMT
References: <2649@nunki.usc.edu>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <2649@nunki.usc.edu>, rjung@sal44.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung) says:
>   Just to pick a _very_ small nit here: I don't know about "MouseProtect", but
> I can say for sure that "MacMenu" is not a "renamed" version of Mousetrap.
> Mousetrap sends the mouse to the menu bar with a click of the right button;
> MacMenu requires a left button press before you can move into the menu bar.
> 
>   (Yeah, it's trivial, but I don't want people to think that the author of
> MacMenu was a cheapo renamed copy of the excellent Mousetrap)

	It is still possible that "MacMenus" is a version of "MouseTrap". 
The official version of MouseTrap (the one STart published) had the right
button jump the mouse to the menu bar.  Dave and I wrote several other
versions before sending that one to STart, and a couple more after STart
published it.  Some used the right button, some used the left, some moved the
mouse to the menu bar and some just made you press the button to enter the
menu bar.  There are even a couple of versions that run on later ROMs.

	Without actually looking at the code it is impossible to say whether
"MacMenu" is one of the ones that Dave and I wrote, a derivative of one we
wrote or a completely original program.  It also doesn't matter, the whole
idea of publishing the source code was to allow people to either modify it or
use it as a guide to write their own.



				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druhi.ATT.COM
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM