give me an answer
 

My annual request for an edit menu is in.

Now, please tell me if it will ever come and if not, why!!!!!!!!!

What is the big deal? I just want an answer. I have not upgraded in a while. I will start to do so again once the Edit menu is included. No sense in paying when I don’t get the product I desire. I have done so in the past to help with development, but it is not going in the direction I want.

But you can already edit. You can copy & paste into search. Change file names ... even add id tags to both mp3's & movies.

i like to cut from a list sometimes while sitting back and not having to use the keyboard.

Ok I only have one hand, happy now? Actually, more often than not, I have a cup of coffee or tea in one hand and the mouse in the other; he crappy Mac mouse with 1 button. And yes I am too cheep to get another one, and the buttons on my tablet pen are not as conveeeeeenient.

it is a break in work flow to change positions. besides, that's why we have mice. I’m glued upright with a CAD program all day that does not have a delete tool besides the keyboard. I would like to relax when I come home.

there is no reason not to have such a menu.

Uh, have you right-clicked on the most recent version? The menu is there.

be still my heart and get out my wallet.

thanks, but what will i complain about? 4 years is a hard habbit to break

i miss understood you at first. i have a single button mouse. i can use the ctrl button, but that would be the same as command V. i still want an edit menu to do it with the mouse alone

Buy a two button mouse.

I'm a mac user, but it is really a pain in the a** to use a single button mouse. Buy a two buttons mouse, really. Mac os x is built to use with a two buttons mouse, probably because Apple prorammers are using those :D

But I thought he just wanted to twinkle his nose like in Bewitched so it just happens without lifting a finger. Who needs a mouse! lol :D Or just a shuffle of the feet.

My favorite mouse until now is a Logitech Click! Optical mouse: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr...CONTENTID=6906

No worry about batteries, well suited for my hand, simple design, very robust cord and only 30$ Can.

Ciao

Could always go one of those engineering/design mouses. I remember over ten yrs back they had multiple buttons. Can't remember what they were all for but. But they were win based buttons if I recall.

there is still one, it has a big ball for rotating in 3D space. 3-400 bucks. it is great for a PC running SolidWorks or ProE

I should get one, and I shouldn’t have to. I hate not using a mouse that works. I cant bare to throw it out, or have it sitting their not being used. Also, I hate having to move a mouse from my tower to my laptop. I have a Powerbook 17”, so I don’t mind spending a lot of money when necessary, but in this case, it is not since every program has or should have an Edit menu.

P.S. Contour makes a nice one for those of you with umm, big hands.

The mouse I was refering to was locally designed & made & was not that much larger I suppose. But was larger than many made at that time. Well, ... as explained the menu exists. Just need to find it. Just like the buttons on the mouse. Perhaps the menu could be advanced more but that's for developments to come .. should it become a popular request. Physio .. like exercising the wrist using the mouse sometimes. Build up the strength in 'your' favoured hand.

I'm still wondering why no one patented the optical moving extended keyboard: that would be one hell of a mouse with many buttons such as : qwertyuiop^ç1245 and many others!!!

:D

Re: give me an answer
 

What do ya mean edit menu? like coppy paist delete and stuff? because that doesnt seem very useful in limewire because all they got is text...

hehe--good to see this annual request for the Edit menu again.

I've asked around for while too, and apparently Java doesn't offer programmers such a cross-platform option yet (don't know about Java 1.5).

So, java programmers are apparently waiting for the developers of Java to offer such functionality.

Otherwise, each platform would need to write an Edit Menu which would be separate for each platform, with all the debugging and support writing separate platform-specific code would entail.

Since the main keyboard commands (select all, copy, paste) have been implemented, it's been easy to copy results, file names, bug reports and all the other useful data.

So, thanks to the devs for doing all they can: looks like they're making good use of the Pro support.

Cough it up gfox: time to pay ;)

btw Sam: can we please have an Edit Menu? :D
(and corrections to my misunderstandings will be appreciated too)

Ummm.. You do have an Edit Menu. Right-Click or Command (or Control?) Click.

(I feel deja vu.)

well . . . I thought that was called a "contextual menu" on Macs.

An Edit Menu would appear to the right of the File menu at the top of the screen, in the standard location all Mac apps have used since as far back as I can remember.

Was I wrong about the difficulties of implementing a proper Mac edit menu?

Control click! works fine in Library window.

so i should not voice a valid point. the mouse works fine with an edit menu. like i said, even if i had one, i would not want to move it constantly between my tower and my laptop.

as for not having a place to post, well just blow me!

thanks for a thoughtfull response and reason as usual. it at least gives me an understanding for its absence.

well i've been on this forum for a long time.

Re: Re: give me an answer
 

copy a corrupted download and re-search, use a word from a text sorce or other title to surch with etc.

having a dropdown of past seaches would help to some degree or a re-seach botton when such a dnl title is highlighted.

that feeling will go away when you see that i want a menu bar edit menu and not just a contextual one:)

Untrue my eMac came wiht a 1 button mouse. All ya really have to do to get around it is hit the cntrl key and its just like pressing the second button.

Er that is a reply for a cupple posts up where hes like. "You probly cant even get a 1 button mouse anymore"

You think using it is a pain in the *** try programming in it lol. LOT harder then I thought it would be.

We'll see about an Edit in the main menu bar. It's possible, but given that the contextual one exists & it's the most important, it's going to take a while before other more important things get finished and this can be worked on.

thanks, all i wanted was to know if it were even a consideration.

thanks Zim, i am aware of the contextual menu.