[ILUG-Social] Random ideas.

[Ronny B]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:00:03PM +0100, David Golden wrote:
> It's not linux-specific at all - though linux is probably the easiest platform
> on which to change the behaviour.
> 
> _Current Situation:_
> 
> When you press RMB, a popup-menu appears.  you move the mouse.
> """Moving the mouse causes the mouse pointer to move. 
> You use this to select an entry from the menu.  Menu then disappears and your 
> action is carried out.  
> """Mouse pointer is in a quite different position to where you left it before 
> pressing RMB.
Oh, how I hate just that behaviour in the GIMP in particular! Select
option that is four levels deep (say, Flame) - the mouse is now 300
pixels further to the right and about 100 down. What happens when you
open the menus again? You won't know exactly where the 2nd, 3rd and 4th
level of menus will appear :(

> _Suggested Situation:_
> When you press RMB, a popup-menu appears.  you move the mouse.
> ***Moving the mouse causes popup-menu to scroll underneath the (stationary 
> relative to physical screen) mouse pointer.  
> You use this to select an entry from the menu.  Menu then disappears and your
> action is carried out.
> ***Mouse pointer is exactly where you left it before pressing RMB.
I am pretty sure I've seen behaviour like that in some application that
made its own GUI. Could it have been Lightwave?

That's something I'll remember to put in my GUI toolkit for SDL, anyway.
I'll need some popup menus for one game I'm working on.

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