Re: [XBoard-devel] ICS context menu

[h.g. muller]

> It is traditional windows logic to use the buttonup event for actions.
> Go to any menu in any program and downclick only but don't release the 
> mouse.  Nothing happens until you release the mouse.  If you change your 
> mind about the action, you simply move away the mouse from the item and 
> then release.
>
> That's why the buttonup event is used-- so you can change your mind on 
> misclicks.

OK, I see the logic, and indeed the right-click menu in NotePad behaves 
that way.
But left-clicking the menu bar of mmost programms I tried, including NotePad,
the pull-down menus appear on the down-click. And you can select an item there
on the corresponding up-click, if you move there. If not, the menu says 
open until
a second click. So Windos users are not entirely unfamiliar with this behavior.

If the 'action' is opening a menu, this logic seems a bit over-cautious. I 
could even
make an up-click outside the menu immediately pop it down, so that the logic
down-move-up to cancel the action fully applies. People that like the meu 
to stay
up after a full click could simply define an empty menu position under the 
mouse
pointer, and an up-click there would then be ignored and keep the menu open.