RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: Popup slider

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 25 July 2006 10:08 +0100 Charles Moir <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ah OK. I didn't check the original spec. Sorry about that.  Interesting
> that you find that behaviour annoying, because I find the current
> behaviour mildly annoying - that it goes away too easily.  I guess I
> need to play with it the other way to find out.

It's in r1518, so it'll be in the 12pm build, so available an hour or
two later.

> Perhaps a half way house is that it stays up if the pointer remains over
> it. So you still get the ability to drag and release - see whether you
> like it or not, drag some more, without having the hold the mouse down
> all the time.  Would that be easy?

I'll leave Mart to comment on whether it would be /easy/, but I don't think
it would be /good/. I think you are saying it should disappear if the mouse
goes out the window ONLY after the first adjustment - that's a bit
inconsistent. As the mouse pointer starts outside the window in the first
place, it would be difficult to do otherwise if you are going to do a
simple "window leaving" test. The window is quite thin and it's easy to
allow the mouse pointer out. A better test would probably be something like
"once it has entered the window, close the window if the pointer leaves it
for more than half a second without any button held down". But...

> Having said all that I tend to use these things the Mac way -
> click-drag-release, as that's fewest clicks.

... well me too. Personally I think we should try and make them work
as much like the combo boxes as possible - that gives a consistent UI.
That is (in essence) your first idea; I can live with the second. I
don't think we should invent yet another pop-up mechanism unless we
need to. The simple answer to people who say "it's clunky" (if it
is) is "use the Mac way then" (once Mart has written it...).

Alex