david@ztivax.UUCP (06/05/86)
>>>..Bob >>I'm curious about what Bob means.. >I meant just that. No, "bob" means: Bob: v, (1) moving up and down while floating, as in "An IBM PC does not bob when thrown into the sea, it sinks."
david@ztivax.UUCP (06/05/86)
eriously, folks: The suggested approach for menus is nice, because it leaves the menu on the screen. This is novel. Also, if a sub menu develops, perhaps it should "overlap" the previous menu, so you can still see where you are. A minor improvement I have seen by the people at Xerox (remember, they invented all this stuff ten years ago now): If you chord "both" mouse buttons (some mice have a center button which is equivalent to both outer buttons, not too many people use it tho), then the appropriate menu is shown, depending on where the mouse currently is. If there may be multiple menus applicable, they are stacked. Underlying menus can be brought up to the top by selecting the part visable. They have a "subwindow" often appearing at the top of a window for "switches" and "fill-in" options. Fill-in options can have menus (user defined) which offer a selection. For example, a list of directories. If you chord over a fill-in option "prompt", you get the selection menu on top, the others stacked below it. A nice thing is the menu "remembers" your last choice: it puts the menu under the mouse, adjusted up and down so the last selection is under the mouse, and adjusted left or right so the mouse is near the right edge.