On Sep 26, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Programmingkid <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It has seem like a rule that has been in place forever that an application 
> pauses processing when the mouse is down on a menu.

System 1 through OS 9, not so much OS X.

> Is there a way to make the application continue processing even with the 
> mouse down?

If the application is already processing on the main thread, clicking on a menu 
will not interrupt it. The menu just won't display & track until the main 
thread is idle.

Processing on any other thread will not affect menu tracking, and vice versa.

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