Popup Menus with Text Selection?

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

This is not from a menu group, just a simple popup button.  There are 
three of them, and they are located below the edit field on the form.  
Roughly like this:

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Courier         10      plain     [---]    <-- a button for displaying 
a color picker

                          <Cancel>  <OK>

On Oct 12, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:

>
> 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)?
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Mark Talluto
> http://www.canelasoftware.com
>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

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