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Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation

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In <ne9dn0$dhg$5@dont-email.me> Jeff Higgins wrote:

>  Just as an aside. Most of the long menus that I run into, including Pan,
>  the newsreader I'm using now, and Eclipse IDE, use [a menu scroller]

And aside from that from that I recommend that you should avoid making menus
that are so long that the user have to scroll. Scrolled menus hinders the user
from seeing all options and scrolling in a menu is hard because if the
user happens to focus outside the menu it will dissapear and the user will
have to repeat his navigation.

Instead, try to find a way to divide the menu into several menus, or open
a dialog from a main menu item, and let the user choose his option from a
list in that dialog. Or even better, try to reduce the total number of
menu items, too many is an indication of poor usability and design.

-- 
Fredrik Jonson

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Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 12:21 -0700
  Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-08 00:12 +0000
    Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 04:29 -0700
      Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-08 15:27 +0000
        Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 08:52 -0700
          Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-08 16:31 +0000
            Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 11:07 -0700
              Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-08 20:39 +0000
                Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 14:00 -0700
                Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-08 21:43 +0000
                Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-09 11:46 +0000
                Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-08 22:33 +0000
                Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-04-10 11:20 +0200
          Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-04-10 11:20 +0200
            Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 05:00 -0700
  Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-04-08 23:09 +0000
    Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 05:13 -0700
    Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2016-04-18 08:50 +0000
      Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-04-18 05:00 -0700
  Re: Scrollable Popup Menu Keyboard Navigation Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-06-07 16:58 +0000

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