This bug report/feature request reminds me something about UI desing...
On 2003-02-23 15:58:06 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Support Request #101880, was updated on 2003-Feb-23 15:58 You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=101880&group_id=99
Category: AppKit Status: Open Priority: 5 Summary: PopupButton menu does not scroll
By: wim Date: 2003-Feb-23 15:58 Logged In: YES user_id=4090 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
1 - Open Gorm.app 2 - Position inspector near top/bottom of the screen. 3 - Select item in popup button so it will fall off the screen. 4 - Click popup button and scroll up/down notice that you cannot select an item that is off the screen.
I am not sure what is the intuitive / correct behaviour. For example it could scroll up/down when the cursor approaches the edge of the screen. But what to do with the original selected item?
I agree, that scrolling is a good idea, like it is in NSMenu. Sometimes popup buttos have lots of items that cannot be reached, because they are out of the screen (for example gnumail mailbox list or encodings popups, where it is sometimes not possible to pick desired option).
However, that is the case of bad user interface design. popup buttons should not have lots of items, combo-box or some other alternative should be used instead.
For futher reading see:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGControls/chapter_7_section_5.html
Stefan
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