Re: Fwd: NSMenu* and NSPopuUp* issues

[Ian Jones]

Pete French wrote:

> > Here are my $0.02 as well....
> > For me it is much a question of screen real-estate.  We deal constantly
> > with documents in Letter or A4 size (or an approximation thereof), and
> >    
>
> Though uunder other circumstances screen real estate provides a very good
> argument for using a menu bar. If I want to expand a window to use
> as much of the screen as possible I get a lotmore out of a top bar as
> it just reduces theamout of usable space by the wwidth of the bar along the
> top edge. With the NeXT style menus the maximum space is reduced by the
> vertical and horizontal size of the menu in the respective directions.
>
> If you are doing anything which wants to have the larges unobstrcuted
> rectangular space posssible to display in the menu bars are an obvious win.
>
> -bat.
>
>  
The thing I like about the NeXT style menus is that they need not take 
up any space at all. I tend to set the defaults to put the standard app 
menus off screen, and use the right click menu feature. That way you 
only have a menu when you want it. Though it may be a nice feature to 
have the menu hang around after right clicking (closable though) incase 
you wish to tear off a submenu, currently the behaviour is that once you 
have made your selection and released the mouse button the menu dissapears.
Just food for thought.

*puts $0.02 in the jar*

Regards,

Ian