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From: louis@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Louis Demers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hierarchical menus -- drag delay found, and it's weird
Message-ID: <1990Feb11.003600.1685@asterix.drev.dnd.ca>
Date: 11 Feb 90 00:36:00 GMT
References: <14044@reed.UUCP> <1990Feb5.004034.6097@oracle.com> <28018@brunix.UUCP> <10059@hoptoad.uucp> <2857@draken.nada.kth.se> <1807@milton.acs.washington.edu> <10164@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <2857@draken.nada.htk.se>
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>     I've seen a CDEV that governs this exact thing (called MenuDrag, or
>MenuSelect, or something like that).  There is indeed a popup and a drag
>delay for hierarchical menus; their values are stored in the PRAM (the
>extended area,...

	I too seem to remember that these values were stored in PRAM, I
	think it was in the draft version of IM Vol V.

tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:

>...However, this got me to thinking -- what if they're using the menu
>flash setting as the drag delay?  So, I just tested it, and it appears
>this is the case.

	I tried that and I could not see a difference in the tolerance of 
	the MenuSelect no matter what the menuflash setting was.

	I did find something interesting though, the drag delay seems
	to be used only if you drag a certain way.  If you leave the item
	having the hierarchical menu in  the general direction of the
	submenu, then the drag delay appears to be used.  If  you drag
	straight down, the switch to the new item will be immediate.

In his article, Mr. Maroney goes on  to say:
>                   I can drag to a submenu at a leisurely speed with
>the menu flash set to 1, but I have to jerk my hand at setting 3; and 3
>was my previous setting.  This explains why I was having problems.

	In view of my comments above, were you dragging exactly through
	the same path (I know it's difficult to evaluate :-) and using
	the same menu item , same start point ?

	Bye,

		Louis
	
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