Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ncar!oddjob!uwvax!speedy!engber From: engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: defaults in hierarchical menus Summary: why not? Keywords: hierarchical menus Message-ID: <5969@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 14:19:23 GMT Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 19 Now that hierarchical menus are becoming widely used, I find that I'm having to move the mouse excessively to make menu selections. This is especially irritating when there is one item is the sub-menu that used most of the time. (Don't tell me about command equivalents. There are only so many that can done with one hand.) What I would like to see is a default selection. One possibility is to have the first item in a sub-menu selected if you release the mouse in its parent menu item. Since this may not be appropriate for all h-menus, it should be optional. H-menus that have defaults could indicate this by highlight the default item along with the parent. I would argue that this is consistent with the Mac interface - when I release the mouse in a menu, I want something to happen. Does anyone see any problems with this? Is there some way I could easily implement this in my programs or will I have to hope that Apple picks up on it? -ME