[Bf-funboard] Suggestion about checkboxes in menus

[Campbell Barton]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Hadrien Brissaud <hadriscus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ?

Its hidden and its kind of a workaround.

To me the solution is not to design menus where this becomes an issue.

Do we have many/any menus with checkboxes?

Tearoff menus have been around for years and aren't specific to maya
- http://oreilly.com/catalog/motifref2/vol6a/Vol6a_html/V6a.15.11.eps.png

We could support but this is really different issue, though it would
mean you could temp tare-off then check all boxes and close.

> 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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