[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/10053 Right-clicking on multichoice() has the same effect as pressing ESC

[Ralph Versteegen]

On 22 February 2018 at 13:27, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, nice!
> Trying it out, I do feel like left-clicking away should close the menu
> too, especially if you brought it up by right clicking, since menus brought
> up in that way always close when you click away, in all cases I can think
> of. I know we talked about this before, but I thought you suggested last
> time that left-clicking away shouldn't close a floating window.
> I guess it depends on how modal the menu is. There's sort of a scale from
> a popup menu when you right-click on something, through floating windows,
> to modal dialogs like "are you sure you want to quit?" And multichoice() is
> used for different purposes.
> So maybe left-clicking should only close a multichoice or other floating
> menu in some cases? Those cases should be indicated visually. For example
> we could put a chequed background behind menus which are modal (can't be
> closed by left-click) but not behind pop-up menus (can be closed)
>

But I think just closing the menu in all cases would probably be fine. We
can worry about it if we find an actual reason to.

>
> Also, a landmark start to using right-clicking!
>
>
> On 22 February 2018 at 13:00, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> I am also planning a few more multichoice() fixes, such as making the
>> caption optional, and left-clicking in the empty space outside the menu to
>> close it, but I ran out of time for today.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:59 PM, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> james
>>> 2018-02-21 15:59:28 -0800 (Wed, 21 Feb 2018)
>>> 67
>>> Right-clicking on multichoice() has the same effect as pressing ESC
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