Talk:Context Menu

Revision as of 22:30, 7 February 2007 by Ericb (Talk | contribs) (double-right-click)

Put your comments there.

The mechanism looks good, and the details of the various menus appear to be well thought-out. Something I would want to see is the ability to hit the context menu key available on most Windows keyboards as an alternative to having to reach for the mouse. Another issue is that I've submitted a change request asking that the top-level "Clusters" folder in the Clusters tool be removed, because it just gets in the way; but if you did so then you would have to figure out where to put the "Add Cluster" context menu item. I don't think this is a problem, however: "Add Cluster" could simply go on the context menu of a cluster folder.

--Jocelyn 08:11, 8 February 2007 (CET) This sounds great for me, context menu will be very useful in many places. I was also wondering if we could one more way to handle the "Pick&Drop/Context Menu" For instance if we just Right_Click "Released" by default we keep the P&D mechanism, but if we keep the Right_click pressed for a moment (10ms for instance) we display the context menu. So this would allow 3 behaviors, maybe that would be too heavy, however this could be a smooth way to integrate context menu into EiffelStudio.

--Ericb 08:24, 8 February 2007 (CET) In many applications that I use, the first entry in the contextual menu is in bold, and if instead of right-clicking I double-left-click I get the action of this bold entry executed. I realize that in text panels of EiffelStudio double-left-click might already be used (to select a word for example). But what about using double-right-click to get this behavior, instead or in addition to shift-right-click?