revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

[Richard Miller]

Sorry, Richard.... it was regarding the latter (popup/pulldowns). What's 
the disadvantage of using a pulldown menu with tabs to create 
submenu's... as opposed to a cascade menu button?

Richard


Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richard Miller wrote:
>> Just a moment ago, I got confirmation from a Rev engineer that they 
>> confirmed the problem and will presumably correct it.... shortly, I 
>> hope.
>>
>> Len Morgan wrote:
>>> I can confirm that cascading menus in a revLet DON'T work right.  
>>> Comboboxes are a little flaky too but that is intermittent.  I use 
>>> cascading menus pretty much the way Richard discribed them.  I have 
>>> a Reports button and under that I have different groups of reports 
>>> which each have their own their own line on this menu.  I can't take 
>>> the mouse off of the original Reports button (top level of menus) 
>>> without it going away.
>>>
>>> On the same menu bar, selecting menus that only have a single level 
>>> work fine.  It's the cascade that causes the problem and since the 
>>> very first line of my Reports menu is a cascading menu, I can't 
>>> select anything below it either.
>
> There are a two issues with cascade-style menus:
>
> 1. They don't draw using OS menus, but instead use emulated menus
>
> 2. They require that the mouse be held down, rather than just
>    clicked as with other menus
>
> But note that those are with the cascade menu button style, not with 
> using tab-spaced sub-menus in pullDown style buttons.
>
> Was the note from Support that they would address cascade style menus 
> specifically, or with sub-menus in pullDown menus?
>
> I sure hope it's the former, as I love using cascade styles for flyout 
> menus but have had to do some funky workarounds to get the to work 
> correctly.
>
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