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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new feature in next GS system software
Message-ID: <37446@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 89 22:33:07 GMT
References: <8912191931.AA25577@apple.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8912191931.AA25577@apple.com> SASQUATCH@ALBION.BITNET ("Kevin Lepard,  629-1827", 517) writes:
>I've got a suggestion for a new feature in a new version of GS system
>software (whenever such a beast might be released).

[Summary:  do a "keyboard mouse" that's smart enough to know where menus
and menu items are.]

This is a decent idea, but it doesn't *need* to be in the System Software;
it's a perfectly good idea for a third-party product.

I wrote an experimental utility along these lines a couple years ago,
using FakeMouse.  It worked pretty well, although it only knew where
the menus were, not how the items are spaced within the menus.  It
turns out the item spacing is not something you can determine in a
guaranteed way, but it would work fine most of the time to assume
a standard item height.
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