>Hi Craig,
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>I'm sure that you are correct and the MS does spend millions on this.
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>Yet I'm also quite certain that this "complaint" in not a new phenomenon. It's bothersomeness was highly accentuated when rt-click 'property popups' came into being, and these have also been with us for some time now.
>Not to mention the fact that menus have been getting deeper and deeper too.
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>It sure seems that their millions of $ don't result in a whole lot of useful stuff. Maybe "BOB" was one of the products of that spending.
>
>regards,
>
>Jim N
>

If you follow the guidelines, then the only thing we've been talking about that should be a problem (for others...not me) is the fact that the menu doesn't stay popped down. However, I think the way this works is correct. In Windows, you should be able to process events in what ever order the user does them. How do we know if the user wants to make another selection from the menu they were just on? The user should drive the software, not the software drive the user. Keeping the menu down, results in the user being driven.