Re: Sticky Popup? -- SOLVED
On Mar 13, 2010, at 1:10 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, I wrote: Is there any way to make the action of popping up a menu sticky? ... The solution I found was to set the ink of the default menubar to noop and place a dummy menubar of my design *behind* the real menubar. Even though the real menubar is invisible, it responds to clicks and its pulldown menus display properly, with their stickiness intact, so one gets the illusion of clicking on the custom menubar. Not sure if this is the best way to pull off custom menus, but it seems to work fine here (and maybe this will save someone some hairpulling). My few hairs are now reserved for other projects! noop saves the day! t -- Tereza Snyder Califex Software, Inc. www.califexsoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Sticky Popup? -- SOLVED
Recently, I wrote: Is there any way to make the action of popping up a menu sticky? Background: I was trying to get a menubar with a custom appearance (black menubar, white button text) to work on Windows Vista and XP. The problem was, colorizing the menu buttons on XP winds up colorizing the text of the menu (white text on a white background is fairly difficult to read), while on Vista I found it virtually impossible to change the appearance of the menu at all (it takes on the default appearance of the OS). I tried using proxy buttons to display the menus of the real buttons, but in doing so pulldown menus are no longer sticky, and when menus are popped, their command-key equivalents are not displayed. Setting the menubar of the stack to empty allowed customizing of the menubar itself, but then the menubar lost its standard behavior and refused to respond to keyboard shortcuts. The solution I found was to set the ink of the default menubar to noop and place a dummy menubar of my design *behind* the real menubar. Even though the real menubar is invisible, it responds to clicks and its pulldown menus display properly, with their stickiness intact, so one gets the illusion of clicking on the custom menubar. Not sure if this is the best way to pull off custom menus, but it seems to work fine here (and maybe this will save someone some hairpulling). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Sticky popup?
Scott Rossi asked Is there any way to make the action of popping up a menu sticky? To imitate a sticky popup I show a stack (named here L9nav) with empty decorations, whose buttons trigger the desired actions and cause the stack to close. And I include in the stack an invisible graphic named auto whose script, when in use, causes the stack to close when there's a click somewhere outside the stack. On mousedown: insert script of graphic auto of stack L9nav into front go stack L9nav as palette Graphic auto has this script: on focusIn get the short name of this stack if it is not L9nav then close stack L9nav pass focusIn end focusIn on openField get the short name of this stack if it is not L9nav then close stack L9nav pass openField end openField And L9nav itself has this script: on closeStack if there is not a graphic auto then exit closeStack get the long name of graphic auto remove script of it from front end closeStack David Epstein ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Sticky Popup?
Is there any way to make the action of popping up a menu sticky? I'm trying to work around a menu text color problem by using proxy buttons to pop up File/Edit/Help menus. Popping up a menu behaves similarly to directly clicking the menu button, except that the menu is not sticky -- the menu doesn't stay opened when the mouse is released. Is there any way to simulate this sticky behavior when using the popup command? (BTW, the text color issue is due to using a custom menu color scheme and differences between XP and Vista. On Vista, menus are drawn with their own default color scheme, so changing the text color of the menu button has no bearing on the menu. But on XP, the text in a menu is affected by the textcolor of the menu button, so making the textcolor anything besides black makes the menu difficult to read.) Thanks for any suggestions. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
