Glenn L. Austin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 8/28/2003 4:32 AM, Dan Dixon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm using Entourage X 10.1.4, service release 1 on OS X 10.2.6. >> >> When I position the Office Notification window along the bottom of my >> monitor, the "Remind" and "Dismiss" menus are blank when I open them (except >> for a scroll-down triangle). Moving the cursor onto the scroll triangle does >> nothing, UNLESS I first move the cursor off of the Notification window and >> menu (out onto the desktop), and then move it back to the scroll triangle. >> >> Is this oddity specific to my system, or is it an Entourage problem? > > Nope, it is just how popup menus work. > > The basic logic is this (from a programmer's viewpoint): > > 1) Create the largest rectangle that can hold the menu items based upon the > location of the popup menu (or all that can fit on the screen at one time). > > 2) Make sure that rectangle is completely on the screen (I'll leave multiple > monitor logic out here, but this is where it would go). > > 3) Find which item would be the currently selected item - the one that the > programmer said should be under the mouse when the menu was shown. > > 4) If the menu extends above or below the top and bottom of the menu > rectangle, draw "scrolling arrows" to show that there is more above or below > the visible part of the menu. > > Steps 3 and 4 are the part that generates the "blank" menu because the first > item under the mouse should be item 1, but that is at the bottom of the menu > rectangle which is at the bottom of the screen, so the first item is shown > below the scrolling arrow.
The thing is, there is plenty of room on my screen for all the menu items (the snooze times) to be displayed, so why would the menu even need to display a scroll triangle? And why does the menu require the user to move the cursor off the menu and back onto it for the menu to scroll? Just seems inconsistent with standard menu function to me. Other popup menus in Entourage don't open blank if I position the window containing them at the bottom edge of my screen. They "drop up" and display all the items, with no scroll arrows unless the list runs out of space. Maybe the menus in Notification are a different type? Dan Dixon -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
