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Re: [PATCH setup 0/4] Use a pop-up menu to select chooser view filter


On 24/08/2016 17:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 24 15:15, Jon Turney wrote:
Clicking on a button to cycle around alternatives seems bad UI, so instead allow
a specific filter view to be directly selected with a pop-up menu.

I'm not sure if this is a great improvement or not, but since I wrote it, here
it is...

Nice idea and works fine in my limited testing.

One question: Usually the popup menu itself reflects the current choice.
So, wouldn't it make more sense to have the text "View" just as plain
text to the left, and the actual popup menu next right to it, showing
the current choice?  Yes?  No?  Shut up?

Yeah, there is probably better visual language to be used here.

If the popup menu itself reflects the current choice, perhaps we don't need a caption with the current choice at all (i.e. just a button that says "View" and that's all...)

I'd really like that button to have a '▾' to indicate it has a drop-down, but that seems hard to achieve.

(This might be done with the BS_SPLITBUTTON style (which combines a button and dropdown menu), but that is sadly only supported by common controls on Vista or later.)


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