HI, >>- am I able to attach en effect to a menu bar ? >> For example, a Sliding effect (like the toolbar in Gnome desktop, or >>like the "Automatic Hide" feature of Windows main menu bar), freeing >>the area over the menu ? > > No, this is not currently possible. The current MenuBar skin does not run any > transitions when menu items are added or removed. No problem.
>>- is it possible to have more Main Menus, and choose which one to >>attach, depending on the current context ? > > Yes. You can do this in application code (by manually swapping your menus in > and out), or you can use the MenuHandler interface. I actually just checked > in a tutorial doc that describes how this works. Ok. >>- someone has tried to see on a menu with many elements, if all is >>inside the display bounds ? >>Both on vertical and horizontal axis. This could be a simple test to add. > > We have a task to revisit this for all popups in 1.4.1: > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-23 Ok, so we could test this more deeply. >>- I've sen in many sites Flash versions of a Scrollable Menu >>(sometimes containing only Buttons), where going to one side (left or >>right) cause a scrolling in that direction, and when the first/last >>element is displayed, it restarts from the other side ... I hope to be >>clear. >>This could be an interesting component to use when there are many main >>elements. >>What do you think ? > > I have seen this effect. You can do something similar with the Panorama > component. Ok, another (future) test ... I've done something like this some year ago in Flash, and was useful. >>A last thing: >>what do you think on adding a simple Pivot About box, containing opt. >>some platform Info (OS, JVM, memory, etc), and some Pivot Info (logo >>small, version, link to site) ? >>At least we could reuse it in all tutorials/demos that have a menu ... > > Possibly. What do you think might be some practical use cases for such a > component? I agree with Todd that this is usually simple and branded by application vendors. But so why not use/show an our (simple) version, to use anywhere we have an Help \ About menu element ? Could help our users to understand/show better what release of Pivot they are running, and start to spread Pivot Logo ... but in any case this is not important, don't worry ... Bye, Sandro
