Re: [XBoard-devel] ICS context menu

[Tim Mann]

I don't remember any reason for that.  It seems like it should pop up
on the down-click, and your idea sounds fine.  (I used a similar idea
to make it easy to put pawns on the board in EditPosition.)

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:49:40 +0100, "h.g. muller" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a special reason tht the ICS menu only pops up on the up-click
> of the right mouse button? I would rather have it pop up on the down-click,
> so that the up-click can already be used to select an item. (Just like the
> X-toolkit menus work.) Up-clicking outside the menu can always be used
> to fix the menu in place until the next click.
> 
> The reason is that some people seem to think it is all important to 
> immediately
> open a Chat Box to a person when you click its handle, rather than going 
> through
> a menu first. I already put that item on the menu, but now it requires a 
> second click.
> What I would like is to pop up the menu on the down click in such a way 
> that the
> top-most item is under the mouse pointer, so that an up-click wthout moving 
> selects
> it. As the menu is entirely configurable in the ini file, people could then 
> assign
> whatever function they like on the single static right-click. I could 
> create a possibility
> to leave it empty for people that do not want a default action, but always 
> want to
> see the full menu before they select anything.
> 
> 


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