From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-03-17T06:35:29+09:00
Subject: Re: |FXRUBY] contextual menu in an Icon List

Thien Vuong wrote:

> That part about "filemenu.grabKeyboard" is really nice.  Thanks much
> for the tip also.

You're welcome.

> If the menu is complex and shows some delay, I'd split the menu pane
> instantiation part out, and only bind the create/popup/run to the
> right click event.

How would you handle dynamic menu content then?

> You may also have to manage the selection a bit to give some feedbackk
> on which items this is going to run on.
> 
> if !isItemSelected(index)
>   killSelection
>   setCurrentItem(index)
>   selectItem(index)
> end
> 

That's a good idea. I was thinking it would be better if right-click 
didn't change the selection and instead operated only on the clicked-on 
object, but that's probably bad GUI design. Also, I notice that at least 
one file browser (konqueror) does change the selection as you suggest, 
and it agrees with you even in the case of multiple selection.