On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 01:35:38PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi Jon, > > thanks for the input! > ... > > When I tap/click on a menu and the menu drops down, I would like the menu > > to go away if I tap/click outside the menu, on "neutral ground". > > This is difficult, if not impossible. The menu is implemented as anchor > elements in an unordered list. Clicking outside it doesn't generate an > event. > > Perhaps it could be solved with some JavaScript trick, but this would > break the fundamental rule that the GUI should also work in an > environment without JavaScript (e.g. on text browsers).
Atually, this is not a problem. A JS add-on implementing this doesn't harm any other functionality. So I went ahead and build a handler (triggered by a new function 'bar?' in "@lib/xhtml.l"), which closes the menu upon a tap/click in the main window area. ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
