Re: Pull down menus.

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From: Peter Schachte
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1988 23:41

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In article <1170@cpocd2.UUCP>, howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
> One last advantage of popup menus; they don't burn a negative image into your
> screen like menu bars do.  Therefore your display will last longer.

One more advantage:  they don't take up valuable screen acreage.  On
small (low resolution) screens, this is a big advantage.

Having using both kinds quite a bit, I find popup menus easier, and
certainly faster, than pull-down (drop-down, window-shade, whatever)
menus.
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
...!sun!quintus!pds

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!quintus!pds
From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Pull down menus.
Message-ID: <762@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 23:41:18 GMT
References: <4129@hoptoad.uucp> <283@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1170@cpocd2.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: Popup menus don't take up screen space.

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