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Re: Singletons and Swing

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Jason Cavett <jason.cavett@gmail.com> writes:

> Basically, within my application, users are creating trees.  However,
> only certain nodes can have certain parents.  Additionally, there are
> many different types of nodes.  If I just gray out the ones they don't
> need, they still have a huge list to search through when, instead, if
> I hide the ones they don't need, they only have 3 or 4, max.
> 
> Is there possibly another way to approach this that I haven't thought
> of?  Thanks.

Perhaps the answer is to make the context menus appear as pop-up menus
on the nodes that are being manipulated.  Since the menu is a pop-up,
users are (by now) used to it being contextual, and only showing the
allowed operations.

The fact that it only appears when summoned (traditionally by
right-click or control-click), means that it doesn't have the same
psychological permanence of menu bar menus -- and thus has a lower
expectation of always being the same.


-- 
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute

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Re: Singletons and Swing "Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:43 +0000
  Re: Singletons and Swing "Daniel Pitts" <daniel.pitts@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:43 +0000
    Re: Singletons and Swing "Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:43 +0000
      Re: Singletons and Swing "Martin Gregorie" <martin.gregorie@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:43 +0000
        Re: Singletons and Swing "Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:43 +0000
          Re: Singletons and Swing "tar" <tar@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:43 +0000
            Re: Singletons and Swing "Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:43 +0000

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