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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Popupmenu CDEF
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Date: 22 Dec 89 18:12:48 GMT
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From article <9376@hoptoad.uucp>, by tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney):
> 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
> [etc...]

I don't think you understood what I ment by abusiveness. I certainly
wasn't talking about that..

> You do realize that it [my popup] will be obsoleted when Comm. Toolbox is
> released?

Now I do. When I posted this message I didn't realize that the Comm
Toolbox would include a "blessed" popupmenu CDEF. I'm sorry for causing
all the trouble.

>>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.

Actually I was just speculating when when I was talking about flicker.
Maybe Apple has figured out how to eradicate it too. The flicker would
occur if you click on the popupmenu so fast that the menu doesn't
actually pop up, if they haven't fix it. Before I embarrest myself by
describing a weird way to eradicate the flicker could somebody please
tell me if Apple has solved the problem? Its fairly tricky unless
they found a simple way to do it than I did.

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