I don't remember any reason for that. It seems like it should pop up on the down-click, and your idea sounds fine. (I used a similar idea to make it easy to put pawns on the board in EditPosition.)
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:49:40 +0100, "h.g. muller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a special reason tht the ICS menu only pops up on the up-click > of the right mouse button? I would rather have it pop up on the down-click, > so that the up-click can already be used to select an item. (Just like the > X-toolkit menus work.) Up-clicking outside the menu can always be used > to fix the menu in place until the next click. > > The reason is that some people seem to think it is all important to > immediately > open a Chat Box to a person when you click its handle, rather than going > through > a menu first. I already put that item on the menu, but now it requires a > second click. > What I would like is to pop up the menu on the down click in such a way > that the > top-most item is under the mouse pointer, so that an up-click wthout moving > selects > it. As the menu is entirely configurable in the ini file, people could then > assign > whatever function they like on the single static right-click. I could > create a possibility > to leave it empty for people that do not want a default action, but always > want to > see the full menu before they select anything. > > -- Tim Mann [email protected] http://tim-mann.org/
