Re: pinned menus

David Mihm (davemann@ionet.net)
Thu, 28 May 1998 21:55:20 -0500 (CDT) 

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Ethan Fischer wrote:
> 
> Here's the way it currently works (as of 1.4.5.55N6):
> 
> start:
>   o button down calls up menu, menu starts up "unpinned"
>   o on button release, 
>     o if in titlebar, title gains "pin" icon, becomes pinned
>     o else, close the menu
>   o on button press in pinned menu, 
>     o if in title, start move
>       o if the menu was not moved, close it
>     o else, goto start: (ie, menu is unpinned, and will close on release)
> 
> If the menu is brought up under keyboard control, it starts pinned.
> 
> The other possibility I'm suggesting is:
> 
> start:
>   o button down calls up menu, menu starts up "unpinned"
>   o on button release, 
>     o if in titlebar, title gains "pin" icon, becomes pinned
>     o else, close the menu
>   o on button press in pinned menu, 
>     o if in title, start move
>       o if the menu was not moved, close it
>     o else, do function, but don't unpin menu
> 
> ----
> Ethan Fischer
> allanon@u.washington.edu
> http://weber.u.washington.edu/~allanon

I grabbed the latest 1.4.5.55N6 the other day and installed it; now I have
the menu following me around. :) But seriously, I could not deal with the
'pinned' menu concept.  I must have missed something but I could never get
the main menu to stay up wile looking in another menu level.  For
instance, previously when one opened the menu and keeping to the left, the
menu items highlighted; but moving to the right, hovering over the arrow
the new menu would open in addition.  This seems to not be the case with
this new 'pinned' menu  concept - unless, like I said, I missed something.
Maybe holding the mouse buuton down would replicate this behaviour - I
never tried this. :( Is this correct?  I would like to be able to still
see the menu cascading style.

..my thoughts on the pinned issue :)

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