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So there's no way to adjust menu blinking in OS X?
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Apr 26, 2003, 11:42 PM
 
You know, how many times the menu item blinks when you select it. It's at 2 now for me. Is that the default? I looked and looked in every preference pane. Maybe I missed it? Where the hell is it? I've had a really long exhausting day. I hope I didn't miss anything.

Also, does anyone know how to actually turn menu blinking off? I hope they add that feature to Panther. I'd like to turn it off, or have it only blink once.

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Apr 27, 2003, 12:27 AM
 
Havne't seen a hack or anything for it anywhere. I hate menu blinking.
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 02:00 AM
 
Well ... damn it.
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 08:37 AM
 
wow.
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 08:44 AM
 
This thread smells!
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 09:03 AM
 
what menu blinking do you mean?
we don't have time to stop for gas
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 09:17 AM
 
Originally posted by PeterClark2002:
what menu blinking do you mean?
When you release the mouse on a menu item, it blinks several times.

In OS9, you could customise how many times it blinked, or turn it off entirely.

Guy: constructive as always, I see.
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 09:17 AM
 
Originally posted by PeterClark2002:
what menu blinking do you mean?
Select a menu, the OS makes it blink before carrying out the action. In OS 9 it was one of the first things I turned off.
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 09:49 AM
 
I remember when I found the memory adddress where the number of menu blinks was stored. I wrote a program to set it to 200 and ran it. Those were the days, not like now when each applicatation has its own address space
     
   
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