Hi. I have one question and one request to make about the menu system of MOS.

I see that multiple menu-item selection is not possible. Is this a bug of MOS or MUI?


Non-blocking, transparent menus are nice but there are such a big drag on my Amiga.. That's the reason i don't use MagicMenu with all of its features enabled in AOS.
In MagicMenu, most of the drag is caused by the non-blocking mechanism. It takes away the sensation of a responsive OS.
Could someone write a patch that will disable these feature(s). I don't know if i'm asking too much but i guess it's 1000 times easier to disable something, than to implement it.


[ Edited by AmigaMancer on 2007/6/28 0:55 ]

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I recall feature was patented and not implemented in 1.4.x.

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Idea behind blocking menus is that it disables all rendering to the screen when menu is open. That is, other programs may stop running for a while.

Making menus solid (see SkinConfig) could help.

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Was ? No more patented ?

The patent expired.

[ Edited by Golem on 2007/6/28 15:21 ]

Speaking of menus, there's something else i want to ask..
I see that the space between each menu's item is bigger in MOS, making menus with many entries not fitting in a screen. How can i reduce it?

You can reduce it by using smaller fonts only.

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Following your suggestion, i tried to do this by changing the fonts in the "Menu" tab of the MUI settings but the font of the menus remained the same after selecting a different font/size.
Then, i figured out that i have to do it through the "system settings" -> "font". After i selected a smaller font size, things got better but still, large menus that fit on a AOS screen does not on a MOS one. I'm using exactly the same resolution in both OSes. I think this is due to the large space between each entry, as i said earlier.

I see no reason why MorphOS should copy AmigaOS in terms of looks, especially spacings and sizes.

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You can adjust spacings by editing the SkinConfig (but it will also be limited by the size of the metakey/arrow graphics, so sometimes you have to resize those with a gfxapp if the skin doesn't come with a low enough size)...


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