Xref: utzoo comp.cog-eng:555 comp.windows.misc:580 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!montnaro From: montnaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Using kinesthetic memory for human interfaces Message-ID:Date: 29 Jun 88 20:43:45 GMT References: <3535@pdn.uucp> <4988@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <4989@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <35362@linus.UUCP> <5976@pyr.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Lines: 18 In-reply-to: joel@pyr.gatech.EDU's message of 28 Jun 88 21:04:32 GMT JR> == Joel Rives (joel@pyr.gatech.edu) BK> == Kort (bwk@mbunix) BK>(A pie menu could also include a bulls eye in the middle giving BK>room for one more choice.) JR>Yes! This bullseye position would also be very approriate for default JR>selection. Suntools remembers the last item selected in a menu and makes it the default the next time the menu is popped up. The bullseye could represent this dynamic default, not just a static default. It is easier to implement in some sense as well, since you don't have to decide ahead of time what the default should be (and guess wrong most of the time). -- Skip Montanaro (montanaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com, montanaro@ge-crd.arpa)