On January 8, 2015 11:36:06 PM Andrew Deryabin wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> 08.01.2015 12:06, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> >>> Hey!
> >>> Question:
> >>> How the heck did you do that scrolling presets popup menu?
> >>> Qt does not have such a single column scrolling menu, does it?
> >>> Or did you force it to one column? Or is it completely custom?
> >>> Reminiscent of GTK menus for sure.
> >>
> >> It's just
> >> mmaps[itype]->setStyleSheet("QMenu { menu-scrollable: 1; }");
> >> Line 443 in helper.cpp.
> >>
> >>> Reason I ask is, well, it's a bit tedious to scroll through all the
> >>> items.
> >>> Can you possibly instead make use of our custom popup menu class?
> >>
> >> I don't like <more> <more> style because sometimes it's too hard to
> >> navigate through such menus. If there are lots of items, these popups
> >> wrap the width of screen and can be shown on (0,0) position. After that
> >> it's a bit tricky to move mouse back and not to close everything.
> >> Instead in scrollable menu I have only to use page up and page down to
> >> navigate.
> >> If I'm alone in my opinion y hen it will not be hard to convert them to
> >> more/more/more type.
> >
> > There's definitely a point where the scrolling menu gets too long,
> > especially on a smaller screen. That was one of the reasons I split
> > off LV2 effects into a separate submenu.
> > Then again, as you say, it's quite easy to navigate.
> >
> > Since it's such an easy change maybe we could keep it as a property
> > setting? Or is there an alternative solution?
>
> Made it. Now there is a new checkbox in global GUI settings called
> "Scrollable submenus" which is off by default.
> Changes are now in qt5 branch.
>
> P.S. To Tim: I checked - before this change the "add synth" popup in
> helper.cpp was made using QMenu, not PopupMenu. So I changed it to
> PopupMenu too.
>
> P.P.S. modified PopupMenu class now takes care of "scrollableSubmenus"
> config flag.
Cool! Satisfy both tastes!
Will check later.
Thanks. Tim.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
> > By the way, I meant to check but never get around to it. On the edit
> > menu there's a submenu for instantiating synths, but it only includes
> > MESS synths. Is the synth menu in the trackinfo compatible so it can
> > be instantiated there too?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Robert
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