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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Deeply Nested Menus (Re: YAWS (Yet Another Workbench Suggestion))
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Date: 26 Jun 88 22:21:53 GMT
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cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes:
> I agree, this is annoying.  How about delaying the submenu pop-down
> until the mouse has been over the parent menu item for a minimum time,
> like for instance, use the double-click delay time from Preferences?
> Only when the mouse paused at an item, would you show the submenu.

The Macintosh does exactly this with its submenus.

			    --M

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