Conference hydra::amiga_v1

3086.0. "Pop-up Menus, ala X-Windows" by LEDS::ACCIARDI () Thu Nov 09 1989 03:02

    
    If you like the way X-Windows applications can 'pop-up' their menus at
    any location on the screen, then you may want to take a look at
    PopUpMenu.
    
    This small hack (4780 byte executable) modifies Intuition in such a way
    that any application's menu (including Workbench) will 'pop' up
    wherever or whenever the right mouse button is selected.  If the RMB is
    selected over the title bar, then the menus are presented in the
    standard way in the screen's title bar.
    
    PopUpMenu is actually fairly clever in the way that it presents the
    instant menu box.  It condenses all the title bar's items into a
    verticle list.  As you walk the RMB down the list, the sub-menu items
    will drop down to the right as you'd expect.  What surprised me was
    that clicking the RMB on the far right side of the screen (where there
    would be no room for the sub-menus) simple caused the sub-menus to drop
    to the LEFT side of the main menu list.  Smart.
    
    I had thought that pop-up menus were not possible with the current
    design of Intuition, so this shows you how much I know...
    
    Anyway, I WAS going to upload this to NORSE, but I'm unable to connect,
    so I'll allow temporary access to LEDS3::USER6:[ACCIARDI.AMIGA].
    
    Please restrict access to off-hours.  The file is called POPUPMENU.ZOO
    and is in Stream_LF format.
    
    Ed.

    I've downloaded this application.
    Thank You.
    
    Gerald