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--[[User:neallester|Neal Lester]] 8 February 2007 | --[[User:neallester|Neal Lester]] 8 February 2007 | ||
For some pick targets, I think the "Pick" option will be called far more frequently than any others. For those "pick" targets, it might be better to simply do the "pick" then the contect menu. For those rare times when you want the context menu, the user could drag the picked object to a "context menu" target on the tool bar. Dropping the picked object on the "context menu" target would activate the context menu. | For some pick targets, I think the "Pick" option will be called far more frequently than any others. For those "pick" targets, it might be better to simply do the "pick" then the contect menu. For those rare times when you want the context menu, the user could drag the picked object to a "context menu" target on the tool bar. Dropping the picked object on the "context menu" target would activate the context menu. | ||
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| + | --[[User:Ericb|Ericb]] 17:23, 8 February 2007 (CET) | ||
| + | Peter, that's funny because I always concisdered the behavior that you described with doube-right-click as two right-clicks. | ||
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Put your comments there.
--Peter gummer 13:28, 8 February 2007 (CET) 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?
--Peter gummer 13:28, 8 February 2007 (CET) The double-click idea is a great one. I think that, wherever it's already used, that should be the first item in bold in the relevant context menu. This way, we conform to operating system standards. I still trip over pick-and-drop, right-clicking in other applications when I should be left-clicking. Failure to conform to operating system standards just slows users down. So double-left-click, please. (Double-right-click is already used, by the way, in EiffelStudio's editor and context tools. To target the editor or context tool to a class or feature currently referenced there, I just double-right-click on it. The Diagram tool is inconsistent in this respect, by the way, because whenever I double-right-click on a class bubble, instead of targeting the Diagram tool it complains that I am creating an inheritance cycle: oops!)
--Neal Lester 8 February 2007 For some pick targets, I think the "Pick" option will be called far more frequently than any others. For those "pick" targets, it might be better to simply do the "pick" then the contect menu. For those rare times when you want the context menu, the user could drag the picked object to a "context menu" target on the tool bar. Dropping the picked object on the "context menu" target would activate the context menu.
--Ericb 17:23, 8 February 2007 (CET) Peter, that's funny because I always concisdered the behavior that you described with doube-right-click as two right-clicks.
