Re: Other system CDEVs?

[Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu>]

On 4 Mar 1998, Mitchell Spector wrote:

>     I find non-sticky menus annoying, you have to continiously hold the
> button down while moving through options. This makes dragging the mouse
> around more difficult and is tiresome (to the joints in your fingers)
> if your scrolling through a long menu list (e.g. hundreds of fonts)
> or sitting there thinking about a choice. The worst is hierarchical
> menus, holding the button while _while_ navigating multiple pop-out-
> to-the-side menus is a real pain and makes it easy to "slip".

I agree. When heirarchical menus came on the scene Apple missed the boat
on adding sticky menus at the same time. Thank goodness they've seen the
light with Mac OS 8.x


> to reopen. Can't say I'm fond of the Apple way of doing things
> anymore, it is inefficient to me now (I used to think the idea
> of a two button mouse was confusing, but now I find it a must
> have and a real time saver. Heh, quite often when I'm in GS/OS
> I try right-clicking the mouse, it's almost instinct now when
> I want to cut/copy/paste, rename or delete). :)
> 

Apple's whole premise for the one button mouse was that they didn't
want the user to remember which button was for what function. I do
think that they have a nice solution with the new contextual menus
in the latest Mac OS. Admittedly, holding down the control key while
clicking could basically be done with a second mouse button. But, I
do like how the choice of functions are presented to you via a pop-up
menu...right under your pointer...and only with the choices needed 
at the given moment. I think we'll see this in other systems in the
future.

Paul.

pschultz@med.wayne.edu
Paul Schultz