On 2/27/04 10:21 PM, "Eddie Hargreaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 2/26/04 11:34 AM, Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> The notifications alert window contains three popup menu buttons.  Often I
>> want to hit the snooze popup, and choose a particular delay.  But this
>> control does not behave like normal OS X popups.
>> 
>> The normal behavior is that the menu pops up on the first mousedown.  You
>> can release the mouse button, menu remains popped, you move to your
>> selection, click again, and it closes.  But in the notifications alert, if I
>> click on the snooze button and release, the window closes, and it assumes
>> that I wanted some (short) default snooze value.  Since my fingers are
>> trained to assume normal OS X popup menu behavior, I make this "mistake"
>> very frequently.
>> 
>> Perhaps the Entourage developers consider this one-click-snooze behavior to
>> be a feature.  I urge them to reconsider it.  If you want to implement a
>> one-click snooze, perhaps you can provide a separate button for that,
>> perhaps with an associated preference setting that determines its duration.
> 
> I disagree, actually. What you call popups, I call buttons that have a
> secondary popup function. These buttons behave in exactly the same way as
> many of the buttons in Entourage: Clicking the button immediately performs
> the action (i.e. Send & Receive) but clicking and holding reveals a pop-up
> window with more options (i.e. list of accounts). I would simply add the
> down-arrow to the direct-right of the buttons so they appear the same as
> other Entourage buttons (clicking directly on the arrow immediately drops
> down the options).

I really like that idea!  That seems more intuitive than the current
behavior, in my opinion.

-- 
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

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