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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hierarchical menus -- drag delay found, and it's weird
Message-ID: <46227@improper.coherent.com>
Date: 11 Feb 90 19:24:26 GMT
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Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Well, I recently downloaded a little cdev called MenuTuner, written by
Carlos Weber (author of the FKEY Manager application).  MenuTuner
permits you to adjust both hierarchical-menu timing controls... [1] the
amount of time that you must have the cursor on a parent menu item
before its associated submenu pops up, and [2] the amount of time during
which you can move the cursor off of the parent menu item before its
submenu vanishes.

It works.  It's nice!

And, interestingly enough, I find that simply hitting the "Reset to
defaults" button was all I really needed to do!  I have a hunch that
zapping the Mac's PRAM may set these delays to a ridiculously-low
value... perhaps to zero... and thus makes hierarchical menus harder to
use than when the Mac was "new, out of the box".  Just a hunch, though.

I'll mail MenuTuner to Info-Mac and to comp.binaries.mac.


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