Just a bit of platform-differences/historical background: on X-Systems as well as Windows before 98 the context menu comes up on the down event of the secondary button, the menu entries react to the up event. That way you can do a down-move-release gesture for the menu and I tend to use that under Linux. MS removed it in Windows 98 with the introduction of the right-drag.
I recall having seen small (only icon) popups on mouse-over in some GUI, showing up directly under the item and right-alignes. I can't remember which program that was. Maybe someone else can. At a first glance I don't mind your solution, though. It feels a bit sluggish for me, possibly due to being at the bottom of the world -- but that's of course just a technical issue. Peter On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Frederic Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a very strange UI adventure lately and we just released (so > sorry for the shameless plug :). > I needed to find a solution for lists, selection and contextual menus > in the Web UI of Artifactory and I got very confused. > The way we do it today is totally incoherent... > I wrote a blog entry about it: http://tinyurl.com/69w63j > Am I wrong? > Right click is cool? > > You can check the crazy "hovering toolbox" we did here: http://repo.jfrog.org/ > Sorry, it's another Maven related stuff :) > BTW: Maven does the beginning of the answer for the library library ! > > > -- What happened to Schroedinger's cat? My invisible saddled white dragon ate it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
