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From: sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hierarchical menus
Message-ID: <3069@pur-phy>
Date: 6 Feb 90 06:34:30 GMT
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In article <10059@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>Does anyone feel there are some serious ergonomic problems with the
>Mac's hierarchical menus?  You have to do an absolutely flawless
>horizontal drag all the way over to the menu; any slight deviation from
>the roughly 16-bit-wide path to the menu will change items.

Heh?  Not last time I checked.  It seems to me you can drag diagonally
down without changing menu items.  On Sunview and other systems, you
have to drag perfectly right.  Weird.

It is kind of a pain that you can't change menu items as easily when a
heirchical menu is up.  It responds quickly when you drag slightly left
while dragging down, but not so quick (feature, not bug) when you drag
slightly right.

-Sho
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