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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Popupmenu CDEF
Message-ID: <9391@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 24 Dec 89 02:00:12 GMT
References: <3398@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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From article <9376@hoptoad.uucp>, by tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney):
>> You do realize that it [my popup] will be obsoleted when Comm. Toolbox is
>> released?

In article <3398@hub.UUCP> 6500stom@hub.UUCP writes:
>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.

I'm sorry if I offended you; obviously you haven't created any trouble.
I just thought you'd like to know that such a CDEF will be becoming
part of the standard system software.

>>>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.

The pop-ups do flicker in this way in the Comm. Toolbox configuration
dialogs.  But I don't see why it's really a problem.  This is not a
normal usage mode, it's an error mode, and it doesn't do anything
confusing or unexpected when the user makes the error.  But let's hear
how yoiu got rid of it.  It seems like it would be pretty easy by just
waiting for a fraction of a second before calling PopUpMenuSelect....
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"Every year, thousands of new Randoids join the ranks.  Most tend to be either
 too-rich self-made tycoons or picked-on computer nerds (the romantic, heroic
 individualism of Rand's novels flatters the former and fuels the latter's
 revenge fantasies)." -- Bob Mack, SPY, July 1989