Hi,

Here you can see right-click tool menu from Cubase application (music + MIDI) on
Atari ST:

http://rrzs42.uni-regensburg.de/~hep09515/keyboards/1197/bilder/0000015g.gif

The mouse cursor changes to the image of the selected tool. Squares were big
enough for comfortable selection.

This small rectangle with larger squares is better than circular menu, as one
can have tools added and removed, while keeping location of first few tools
unchanged. As mentioned before, this is not possible with circular menus as you
are limited with space so you have to change widths of items and therefore to
change their location.

Brief description of toos:
Arrow - pointer tool, select objects, move objects
Eraser - delete objects
Q - track specific tool (i have never used that)
scissors - cut tracks like a tape (not like the 'Edit/Cut', but like real tape
cutting)
magnifier - zoom
pencil - "draw" tracks - insert new tracks
X (mute) - mute clicked track
glue tube - glue tracks - oposiste operation to cut

This is what I would call good metaphor of tools and good implementation of that
metaphor.

Stefan Urbanek
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