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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:4 Apr 2001 at 23:19:52
Subject:Re: Amiga announcements - any questions?

Richard Friend said,

> From: Neil Bothwick <neil@wirenet.co.uk>

>> Yes it does, that's what I was referring to before. It's the popup menus
>> from right-clicking an icon that can be changed, unlike the Windows
>> ones.

> I'll be honest with you, I've never discovered how to do that!

Install DOpus :)

> Everytime I
> right click, no matter where, I get the main menus up. (Via Magic Menu)

Because MM intercepts the RMB and calls the system menus instead. It's a
nice idea, provided you only use the RMB to call up the Intuition menus.

> All I was trying to say was that I'd like to see something like that built
> into the new Amiga O/S. So, for instance, all the system menus would be at
> top of the screen. Open a drawer and clicking at the top of it would bring
> up some 'action' menus whilst clicking on an icon would bring up more
> specific menus!

That's exactly what happens with Opus, provided you don't let Magic Menu
nick the RMB events before Opus sees them.

Neil



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