What's On The Menu?

Robert Sneidar slylabs13 at me.com
Sat Dec 29 22:53:03 EST 2012


Just to weigh in here, cascading menus works fine for a limited number of choices, but if there are many choices, and the menus need to scroll to see them all, cascading menus become a REAL irritation, especially if the user "misses" while trying to move the mouse to the right to get to the next level. Ever go through 2 or 3 levels in a cascading menu in Windows, only to "miss" and have the whole mess reset? VERY frustrating. The Start Menu in Windows XP is the perfect example of how NOT to employ cascading menus. Windows 7 does a better job by making the user click or hover for a time before the next menu level pops. 

I have a Field Dropper tool I use to create fields on a card based on columns in a SQL table. I use separate menus and have the user make each selection, first the table, then the column, then the kind of control etc, discretely. Trying to build a cascading menu on the fly and then have the user interact with it, specially for a large database with tables having lots of columns would be problematic at best. 

Bob


On Dec 29, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> When you click on an option menu, the last choice you made from it appears
> under the cursor and is highlighted.  That doesn't happen with pulldown
> menus and so far I haven't found a way to make it happen.  Jujst a
> convenience and it doesn't really matter in my case since there's a fairly
> short list of items in the menu but it's very convenient to have that
> happen in a long list of menu items.
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> 
>> Pete-
>> 
>> I see why you would want cascading menus, but I don't see what an
>> option menu buys you over a pulldown menu, aside from the one-liner of
>> having to set the label yourself.
>> 
>> --
>> -Mark Wieder
>> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>> 
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