Re: Popup menus?

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1989 02:08

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In article <8910191430.AA06298@decwrl.dec.com> mcafee@tallis.dec.com writes:
> The interesting thing about
> popups are that they are sensitive to precisely where you are
> clicking.

They don't have to be. There's no reason standard menus can't work under
a popup paradigm. Personally, I'd prefer it that way... context-sensitive
menus, like in X, bug me.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com  'U`
``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!''
	-- Andrew Molitor <amolitor@eagle.wesleyan.edu>

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Popup menus?
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Date: 21 Oct 89 02:08:41 GMT
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