On Sep 26, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 7:11 AM, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> 
>> 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. Is there a way to make 
>> the application continue processing even with the mouse down?
> 
> No, that was only true in the old "classic" OS. In OS X, menu tracking runs 
> in a different thread and doesn't block the app's thread(s).
> 
> What sign are you seeing that menu tracking blocks your app?
> 
> --Jens

When I click on a menu, the application pauses. That seems pretty much like a 
smoking gun that things haven't changed much with the Mac OS.
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