[cap-talk] Drag & "Attenuated" Drop?

Mark Miller erights at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 17:29:21 EST 2008


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Rob Meijer <capibara at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I'm not sure what the difference is between a drop-time 'pop-up menu' and
> a drop-time dialog box. The thing I had in mind would look something like
> http://polacanthus.net/DragNDrop.jpg at drop time.

Fewer clicks. On mouseup over the drop target, a popup menu appears,
where selection follows the cursor. Clicking on an item in the menu
selects it, granting the named facet to the drop target. Clicking
anywhere else dismisses the menu and cancels the grant-in-progress.

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    Cheers,
    --MarkM


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