[Cuis-dev] [IMPROV] Preferences Menu With Better Feedback

[Gerald Klix]

I think I understand your problem.
There is no way to unpin
a menu, you only can close it.
See my video at 39s.

There are methods
MenuMorph>>stayUp and MenuMorph>>stayUp: <bool>,
but `<myMenu> stayUp: false` only removes the menu
from the taskbar. IMHO unpinning a menu would not make much
sense, because unpinned menus are modal, the consume, more
or less all UI events. Reentering that state would make
little difference. You don't need to press the menu's close
button to close an unpinned menu and the menu will close
if you select an item. This would lead to this sequence of
events:

pinned --unpin--> unpinned --select item--> close
pinned --select item--> pinned --close button--> close

Both sequences require two mouse clicks;
you save nothing by unpinning a menu.


HTH,

Gerald



On 8/31/21 3:50 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> If you load the VectorGrahics package, many of the nice bitmap
> icons are replaced with much simpler circles,
> that show some visual feed back on mouse-over.
> 
> I suppose, if we want the old icons back,
> we need to provide some nice vector graphics/SVG icons
> and probably we need to implement a cache for scaled
> bitmaps computed from those graphics.
> 
> I am not the graphics and numerical algorithms expert.
> 
> 
> Just my 0.02€,
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
> On 8/31/21 3:39 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>
>> Yes, Gerald, I missed the pinning, my bad ;)
>> thank you for the video anyway !
>>
>> I usually pin the 'Open' menu.
>>
>> But, If i remember well when i was pinning windows, till about 1 week 
>> ago,
>> there was an icon on the top right corner. Now the icon is gone and it 
>> is not
>> much clear how to unpin a window.
>>
>> Bye
>> Nicola
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/31/21 3:26 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> Yes, of course if you do it that way ...
>>>
>>> On 8/31/21 2:31 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Gerald,
>>>>
>>>> I `git pull` everything and retest.
>>>>
>>>> I still see the same bahavior:
>>>> 1. run cuis base, nothing of my config
>>>> 2. load package `PreferencesMenu.pck.st`
>>>> 3. Open Preferences
>>> ... here you forgot to pin the menu, if you pin the menu it
>>> works like charm.
>>>> 4. Select 'Hide taskbar'
>>>> 5. => The preferences window closes. There is nothing that can hide it.
>>>> 6. `World -> Window -> Find Window` gives me only the "Workspace" 
>>>> which is truly still there.
>>>>
>>>> I would say this side effect of closing the Preferences Windows when 
>>>> I change a preference
>>>> is undesirable. But, this is just my opinion ;)
>>> It isn't a side effect, I get the same behavior, when
>>> I do not pin the menu.
>>>
>>> Please, watch this video:
>>> https://www.klix.ch/haver/releases/PreferencesPinning.mp4
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>>>
>>>> bye
>>>> Nicola
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/31/21 12:46 PM, Gerald Klix wrote:
>>>>> Nicola,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for the feedback.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 8/31/21 12:38 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks much better Gerald.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One thing that i tried to click and it is active is "remove taskbar".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I noted that if i select it the Preference menu goes away, this is 
>>>>>> undesirable IMO
>>>>>> because it becomes not practical for the user to make several 
>>>>>> changes and see what he likes most.
>>>>> I hope, that your preferences menu was just covered by some previously
>>>>> hidden window, because removing the taskbar makes all hidden windows
>>>>> visible again. I think I was also baffled a bit by that behavior
>>>>> during development. Could you please test again
>>>>> and check with `World -> Windows -> Find Window`; I will retest, too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bye
>>>>>> Nicola
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8/30/21 2:54 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all, Hi Juan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please find attached a (rather big) package that reworks
>>>>>>> the preferences menu. My main objective was to provide
>>>>>>> better user feedback by showing the currently
>>>>>>> active setting where feasible.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am looking forward toyour feedback.
>>>>>>> If the changes are acceptable,
>>>>>>> I will convert the package to change-set
>>>>>>> and resubmit it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> HTH and Best Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gerald
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Gerald
>>>>
>>