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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: popup menus
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Date: 19 May 89 20:01:17 GMT
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In article <23914@labrea.Stanford.EDU> combs@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Dave Combs) writes:
>Does anyone have any decent suggestions about how to do regular pop-up
>menus (without the hack that they have to be part of the "main" menu, and
>be accessed through the right mouse button?)  I have a large number of 
>very specific menus, so attaching all of them to the main menu is very
>inelegant.


I have the same problem as Dave.  In 0.8, I ended up using modal panels
filled with buttons.  This caused me lots of fun and laughter in 0.9,
since 0.9 forcibly centers modal panels (and causes nested modal panels
to be placed so that their top-left corner is approximately 1 screen inch
lower and to the right of the previous panel).  I eventually created a
subclass of panels that has null methods for center: and moveTopLeftTo::
and which get placed where I want them to.

However, 0.9 does have two new facilities, see "Buttons That Bring Up
Lists" on page 44 of the 0.9 NeXT User's Reference Manual.  I'm going to
be moving to using them, and may be able to get rid of some of my modal
panels.

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