Popup Menus with Text Selection?

[Mark Talluto]

On Oct 12, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> 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:
>
> ---------------------------------------
> [                                     ]
> [                                     ]
> [                                     ]
> [                                     ]
> [                                     ]
> ---------------------------------------
> 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)?
>>


See...now that is what I get for not reading carefully.  Sorry about 
that.

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Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com