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wrym
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 Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:49 am
multi-state button menu alignment
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1) From blank session paste the following code into the xml view
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<button type="Multistate" autopos="false" left="-2" toolbar="0" priority="10" id="1">
<caption>test</caption>
<button id="2">
<caption>really long button substate</caption>
</button>
<button id="3">
<caption>other state</caption>
</button>
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2) save
3) click the button down arrow, notice how the menu appears to left not below the button
4) from command line "#makew test"
5) dock test window to right of Cmud
6) click the button down arrow,notice how the menu appears to float over into the test window
nothing serious, but... odd |
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Tech
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Location: Atlanta, USA
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:09 pm
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I don't find it odd at all, that's teh behavior I would expect and I'm fairly certain that was done by design.
In the first scenario, step 3, you are flush against the right edge of the screen and not enough room to display the menu so it's displayed to the left. I'm pretty sure this is a standard.
In the second scenario, step 6, you are no longer flush against the right edge of the screen, so there's room to display and you wouldn't want the child window to obscure the menu display. |
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Zugg
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Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:23 pm
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Yep, that's just the standard way in which Windows displays menus. It's not even something I have control over myself without getting into the low-level guts of the menu system. So it's not going to change.
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wrym
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:37 pm
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I wondered if that was part of the default windows behavior... I still find it...odd.
I guess I was expecting the right side of the button and menu to line up in both cases, instead of the two different behaviors you see. |
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