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From: nospam on 12 Jun 2010 01:26 In article <michelle-74F328.17113111062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.e xample.com>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > system 7 added popupmenuselect but it was possible to do it before > > that, but with a little more work. > > Yeah, but popup menus aren't the same thing as contextual menus. they are from a programming point of view. it took a menu, an x/y position and which item to highlight in the menu. that could be in a window where there was a popup menu, or wherever the cursor happened to be, window or not (i.e., right-click functionality).
From: nospam on 12 Jun 2010 01:26 In article <your.name-1206101231090001(a)203-109-171-174.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > > system 7 added popupmenuselect but it was possible to do it before > > that, but with a little more work. > > Possible for programmers within their own applications, but it wasn't part > of the Mac operating system. it was part of the os.
From: nospam on 12 Jun 2010 01:27 In article <your.name-1206101228380001(a)203-109-171-174.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > > codewarrior in its later releases blew away lightspeed/think c/pascal. > > I'm back on my Mac, and it's CodeWarrior 4 Gold that I have. From what I > remember it was awful compared to Think Pascal. yikes that's old. no wonder you found it rough around the edges.
From: Your Name on 12 Jun 2010 02:26 "nospam" <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:120620100126265141%nospam(a)nospam.invalid... > In article > <your.name-1206101231090001(a)203-109-171-174.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your > Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > > > > system 7 added popupmenuselect but it was possible to do it before > > > that, but with a little more work. > > > > Possible for programmers within their own applications, but it wasn't part > > of the Mac operating system. > > it was part of the os. :-\
From: nospam on 12 Jun 2010 12:06
In article <michelle-013459.06014512062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.e xample.com>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > > system 7 added popupmenuselect but it was possible to do it before > > > > that, but with a little more work. > > > > > > Yeah, but popup menus aren't the same thing as contextual menus. > > > > they are from a programming point of view. it took a menu, an x/y > > position and which item to highlight in the menu. that could be in a > > window where there was a popup menu, or wherever the cursor happened to > > be, window or not (i.e., right-click functionality). > > As I recall, popupmenu select did not require a right click. A left click > at the location would pop the menu up, and it would be static, not context > dependent. it doesn't require a click at all, it just pops up a menu in a particular location. it is called after a mousedown event, whether it's primary or secondary or whatever is appropriate for the app, usually with the location in the mousedown event. |