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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Popupmenu CDEF
Message-ID: <9376@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 89 00:40:48 GMT
References: <3379@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <3379@hub.UUCP> 6500stom@hub.UUCP writes:
>This sounds very much like the popupmenu CDEF that I'm working on
>right now and maybe I'll introduce it because I should be done with
>v2.0 today. The main feature is that there is zero flickering if you
>use it non-abusively.

I wanted to comment on this "abusiveness" issue when someone made it
last week, but I'm doing it now instead.  The claim is that pop-ups
don't exhibit the itemless scrolling behavior as long as they're used
correctly.  I must disagree strongly.  Most dialogs should be modeless
and have drag bars.  If you do this, there is no way to allow
legitimate dragging while preventing the pop-up from being close to the
bottom of the screen, creating this obnoxious behavior.  Modeless
dialogs are hardly "abusive"; if anything, modal dialogs are the
abusive ones.  This behavior is a bug in PopUpMenuSelect, not the fault
of application programmers.

>It conforms almost exacly to the pictures in
>IM V and even has code to center itself within the CNTL bounds if you
>want.

You do realize that it will be obsoleted when Comm. Toolbox is
released?

>If anyone is interested I could explain how I eradicated the flicker.

Sure, I don't even know what flicker you mean.  I read this group to
learn, though.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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