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In article <3vmbqc$8f4@mack.rt66.com>,
   smeagol@mack.rt66.com (Eric Jorgensen) wrote:

>:>  I am using Windows right now.  I click on menu and immediately let go of 
the 
>:>  mouse.  On the Mac it goes away, and on Windows it stays.  Why would I 
just 
>:>  click on the menu and then let go of the mouse button immediately?  I 
don't 
>:>  know; I guess I do it while scanning menus for commands.  It's just my 
>:>  personal habit from using the Mac, and it gets annoying while I'm using 
>:>  Windows.  Also, if you pull down the wrong menu, Windows needs an extra 
>:>  click to get rid of it without selecting something (unless you have held 
the 
>:>  mouse button down while looking at the menu, but I don't do that).  
Before you 
>:>  take this the wrong way, remember that I am not calling this some sort of 
>:>  fatal flaw in Windows--I'm just wondering whether anything exists to 
change it.
>
>As I understand it, windows has some of the same roots as Motif, a GUI 
>toolkit for X-windows.  Motif menus behave in the same fashion.  I guess 
>it is just a matter of style.  Personally, I like it because it makes it 
>easier to negotiate submenus.  In any event, I don't think that feature 
>can be turned of in win 3.1.

Hmmm pressing the ESCAPE key usually exits out the the menus, but I suppose 
you'd consider that too much trouble, because you'd have to switch from mouse 
to keyboard.  Another thing you could do is to simply click on the menu again. 
 It disapears.  Actually, I find that to be a convenience because I can look 
at the menu structure without having to hold on to he mouse button or being 
forced to select an option.


Just a suggestion,
slod ion