Re: Right click HIG

2012-07-16 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Peter, yes setting the text style of the mouseline worked fine. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > On Jul 16, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > > I used a rectangle graphic and tried to > > position it around

Re: Right click HIG

2012-07-16 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 16, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I used a rectangle graphic and tried to > position it around the lines in question but I seem to recall it wasn't > straightforward figuring out the exact position of the lines in pixels so I > could position the rectangle. Seems like a way to

Re: Right click HIG

2012-07-16 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Jacque, that works nicely. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:20 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/16/12 9:35 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > In all other cases there needs to be some way to let the user know what >> will be affected, and in the absence o

Re: Right click HIG

2012-07-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/16/12 9:35 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In all other cases there needs to be some way to let the user know what will be affected, and in the absence of a secondary hilite I've had to write handlers that perform selection on right-click. Something like this might work: set the textstyle of

Re: Right click HIG

2012-07-16 Thread Peter Haworth
My current solution is to include information from the right-clicked line in the popup menu items, e.g. if the line included a person's name, the popup menu items would include the name as part of their options, like "Show details for Peter Haworth". I tried framing a line in a scrolling list fiel

Re: Right click HIG

2012-07-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp wrote: In the Mac Finder, they put a rect around the list item, but don't hilite it. I submitted a request some time ago for the ability to indicate selection in non-focused windows - perhaps it could be extended to include right-clicked list items?

Re: Right click HIG

2012-07-15 Thread Chipp Walters
In the Mac Finder, they put a rect around the list item, but don't hilite it. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/ma

Right click HIG

2012-07-15 Thread Peter Haworth
I have a scrolling field with discrete lines of information in it. If the user left clicks on a line, the line is , of course, highlighted. I also check for a right click on a line and display a popup menu. What is the correct handling of line highlighting in that case? Should I highlight the li