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- Drop Menus 1.2(.4) Read Me, 9103/21
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- Drop Menus is an attempt to bring the functionality of MS/DOS-like drop-menus
- to the Macintosh environment. It is loosely based on "Auto Menus 2.0" by
- Michael J. Conrad, which drops the Mac's menus as soon as the mouse moves
- into the menu bar. Drop Menus takes a more conservative approach. Without
- giving up the Mac's drag menus, just clicking in the menu bar will cause
- the menus to drop until another click is made. If the click occurs on a
- menu item, that item is selected. If the click occurs outside a menu, or
- in the menu bar, menu selection is cancelled. You can also use Mac menus
- as usual, by holding the mouse button down until you want to release it.
-
- To activate Drop Menus, which is an INIT, drag it into your System Folder
- and reboot. To deactivate, drag it out of your System Folder and reboot.
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- This archive contains the INIT; this file; and the THINK C source. Drop
- Menus is freeware. It may be freely distributed so long as these three files
- are included unmodified. Portions of Drop Menus are derived from code by
- Michael Conrad, whose helpful support is gratefully acknowledged.
-
- To achieve these results Drop Menus uses a couple of very un-Mac'ish tricks.
- Like Auto Menus, Drop Menus gleefully uses two undocumented global variables
- which hold the current X and Y location of the mouse. To distinguish between
- clicking and click-dragging Drop Menus also defines a "click" as lasting
- less than one-quarter as long as a double-click. There will be a brief, but
- noticeable, pause before menus drop or are posted. This interval can be
- shortened by decreasing the "length" of a double-click using the Mouse or
- Pointing Device control panel.
-
- Drop Menus is a sick hack. It was developed mostly for the author's own
- satisfaction and gratification. If you find it useful, great! But beware:
- some Macintosh software quite correctly assumes that menu selection will
- use the standard click-drag technique, and will malfunction accordingly.
-
- Known Incompatibilities and Artifacts
- 1) Drop Menus does not get along very well with Mac Paint 2.0's palettes.
- 2) The MORE3 "About MORE" dialogue can only be obtained by click-selection
- and not releasing the mouse button until you're finished with it.
- 3) CE Toolbox/CE Extras - this may or may not appear in the Apple menu
- depending on how long the 'click' lasts.
-
- Despite these admonitions the author appreciates any and all feedback,
- including (but not limited to) suggestions, additional conflicts, etcetera.
- Contact me on GEnie and AOL as OUTER; on Compu$erve at [71755,204]; and on
- the Internet at 71755.204@COMPUSERVE.COM.
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- 9103/21 Richard Outerbridge
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