[Bf-funboard] Suggestion about checkboxes in menus

[Hadrien Brissaud]

Thanks for your response Campbell. There's a kind of workaround for this in
Maya (qt), I'm thinking of pop-out menus :
http://i.stack.imgur.com/UCZel.png The small ribbon at the top makes the
menu pop out as a floating utility window. Obviously that suddenly becomes
very complicated and also gets in the way of the non-overlapping philosophy
(which is a slight bit adamant imho but that's a debate in itself). Why
does holding a modifier key seem like a weak solution ? Is it because it is
very hidden ?

Hadrien


On 20 March 2014 23:31, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Hadrien,
> This can be supported but I don't think its a really good idea.
>
> We have some operators which show with a checkbox icon so from the
> users perspective theres no difference between these and toggles
> accessed via our data API.
>
> Also I think its important menus have predictable outcome, so the user
> can know what to expect without having to wave their mouse to get a
> menu to vanish sometimes but not others.
>
> I'm not totally against having some way to do this though (Hold Alt
> for example), but this also seems like a weak solution.
>
> Not that we should blindly follow others - but I checked some other
> applications and they all close their menus when toggling options too
> (firefox, qt-applications, gnome-applications).
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Hadrien Brissaud <hadriscus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > first of all congrats for the 2.70 release. It's awesome. Just one thing
> I
> > find annoying when I want to check/uncheck multiple checkboxes in menus,
> it
> > automatically closes the menu on mouse click. It would be nice that it
> > didn't. Is it possible to detect whether the mouse cursor hovers a
> checkbox
> > or another kind of item ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Hadrien
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