3.9-7061 World Menu issues

> What has happened to the World Menu?
>
> The 'normal' left-button gets something similar to the previous  
> release but with an anomalous hierarchical-type submenu for  
> 'Preferences and Services' that behaves quite unlike all the other  
> sub-menus of the World Menu.
> The middle-button used to open a personalised menu - and the  
> preference is still there to do that but it doesn't have any  
> effectc - but now produces a strange menu with hierarchical-type  
> submenus for much of the usual World Menu items and some  very odd  
> entries. Including some non-hierarchical-type submenus (playfield  
> options for example).
>
> It's a bit naff to have an odd admixture like this. Wouldn't it be  
> nicer to be consistent?

> Am 13.10.2006 um 04:34 schrieb tim Rowledge:
>
>> What has happened to the World Menu?
>>
>> The 'normal' left-button gets something similar to the previous
>> release but with an anomalous hierarchical-type submenu for
>> 'Preferences and Services' that behaves quite unlike all the other
>> sub-menus of the World Menu.
>> The middle-button used to open a personalised menu - and the
>> preference is still there to do that but it doesn't have any effectc
>> - but now produces a strange menu with hierarchical-type submenus for
>> much of the usual World Menu items and some  very odd entries.
>> Including some non-hierarchical-type submenus (playfield options for
>> example).
>>
>> It's a bit naff to have an odd admixture like this. Wouldn't it be
>> nicer to be consistent?
>
> Isn't there a preference for that? To have the personalized menu or not?

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>  
>> Am 13.10.2006 um 04:34 schrieb tim Rowledge:
>>
>>    
>>> What has happened to the World Menu?
>>>
>>> The 'normal' left-button gets something similar to the previous
>>> release but with an anomalous hierarchical-type submenu for
>>> 'Preferences and Services' that behaves quite unlike all the other
>>> sub-menus of the World Menu.
>>> The middle-button used to open a personalised menu - and the
>>> preference is still there to do that but it doesn't have any effectc
>>> - but now produces a strange menu with hierarchical-type submenus for
>>> much of the usual World Menu items and some  very odd entries.
>>> Including some non-hierarchical-type submenus (playfield options for
>>> example).
>>>
>>> It's a bit naff to have an odd admixture like this. Wouldn't it be
>>> nicer to be consistent?
>>>      
>> Isn't there a preference for that? To have the personalized menu or not?
>>    
> that's what tim mentioned, there is a preference under menus. but, it
> doesn't seem to do anything. A middle button click with the preference
> enabled and disabled, the menu is the same. Maybe it works a different
> way now?
>
> brad
>
>
>  

> Brad Fuller wrote:
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>  
>>> Am 13.10.2006 um 04:34 schrieb tim Rowledge:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> What has happened to the World Menu?
>>>>
>>>> The 'normal' left-button gets something similar to the previous
>>>> release but with an anomalous hierarchical-type submenu for
>>>> 'Preferences and Services' that behaves quite unlike all the other
>>>> sub-menus of the World Menu.
>>>> The middle-button used to open a personalised menu - and the
>>>> preference is still there to do that but it doesn't have any effectc
>>>> - but now produces a strange menu with hierarchical-type submenus for
>>>> much of the usual World Menu items and some  very odd entries.
>>>> Including some non-hierarchical-type submenus (playfield options for
>>>> example).
>>>>
>>>> It's a bit naff to have an odd admixture like this. Wouldn't it be
>>>> nicer to be consistent?
>>>>      
>>> Isn't there a preference for that? To have the personalized menu or
>>> not?
>>>    
>> that's what tim mentioned, there is a preference under menus. but, it
>> doesn't seem to do anything. A middle button click with the preference
>> enabled and disabled, the menu is the same. Maybe it works a different
>> way now?
>>
>> brad
>>
>>
>>  
> Something works definitely differently. I have a class, that has the
> mouseDown: evt method handled the
> left and right mouse buttons (talking about Squeak under Windows). Now
> the left (redButtonPressed) button works
> just fine, but when I press the right (yellowButtonPressed) mouse
> button, I get a 'playfield' menu (probably the
> PasteUpMorph menu under my morph). The mouseDown: method does not even
> get called!!! Am I doing something
> wrong, has anything changed that I am not aware of?
>
> Elod
>
>