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Article #17Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1985 21:57
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1985 21:57
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> besides pop up a menu, like save a document for instance, then the poor > fellow that pops up the wrong menu and runs the mouse across the menu bar > to the right menu might cause something to happen that he didn't want. > Active items in the menu bar are unforgiving, not the kind of interface for > "the rest of us." You can't trigger something by running the mouse along the menu bar even if the items are active. You would have to release the mouse button, just as you now do when running down the "Files" menu. There are active items there, but you can't set them off by accident either.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.cog-eng Subject: Re: Menubar items without menus are AWFUL Message-ID: <329@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 17:57:07 EDT Article-I.D.: graffiti.329 Posted: Sun Oct 20 17:57:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 23-Oct-85 04:40:50 EDT References: <3281@nsc.UUCP> <5387@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1701@dciem.UUCP> <1713@dciem.UUCP> <1052@arthur> Distribution: net Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 10