Popup Menus with Text Selection?

[Mark Talluto]

On Oct 12, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>> On Oct 12, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>>
>>> I came in late on this thread:  what was the reason for turning off 
>>> traversalOn?  Maybe there's another way to handle that which won't 
>>> cripple your Win version if you're making one.
>> Leaving traversalOn on causes text in a field to be deselected when 
>> the menu is opened.  The whole purpose of the menu is to apply 
>> font/size/style settings to the selected text.  Since the text is 
>> deselected, there is no longer a selection to apply a font/size/style 
>> to by the time the user selects a font/size/style to apply.
>> Also, the program is a graphical report editor; if users are blind, 
>> then they will not be able to use the program anyway.
>
> Tabbing between controls is not just for blind people.  While the 
> blind have no alternative, most proficient Win users are in the habit 
> of doing that as a convenience (it minimizes the mouse-to-keyboard and 
> keyboard-to-mouse time, which can be especially useful for apps that 
> are heavy in text input).  Mac OS will eventually catch up in this 
> regard. Steps have already been taking in this direction (see the 
> "Turn on full keyboard access" option in the Keyboard & Mouse control 
> panel in Panther).
>
> As far as traversalOn affecting text selection, this does prevent a 
> good many useful application designs and should be flagged as a bug.  
> I thought it had been.  Anyone have the Bugzilla number?
>
> The interim workaround is to trap mouseEnter in the menu control to 
> store the selectedChunk, and restore it in the menuPick handler.
>

I have logged a bug that might be related to this: 
<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2210>
This might be related to your issue.  Is your menu group located in 
another stack (meaning it is not in the mainstack)?

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Best regards,
Mark Talluto
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