Re: Tear-off menus, version 2

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:16, Michael Toomim wrote:

> The idea is to let users select multiple items in a menu without having
> to re-open it by control-clicking the menu-items.  A regular click on a
> menu-item would select the item and close the menu, but a control-click
> would select the item and leave the menu item so that the user could
> select additional items, or the same item multiple times.

This is already possible from the keyboard, as Owen said.  The Amiga
implements one possible mouse-only solution: it lets you click multiple
items on a menu by holding down the right mouse button while you click
with the left button. It would probably make more sense to swap that
around if you were doing it in gtk (i.e. click with right while holding
down the left), given that the right button is the one you have to hold
down to access the menus on an Amiga anyway... but it does involve
chording which the HIG frowns upon :)  Can't deny it's a pretty useful
feature at times though.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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