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Re: Good Context/Pop-up Menu Routine

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:26:14 -0000, in comp.lang.javascript "Mojo"
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>| Hi All
>| 
>| First of all, apols for the multi-post, but I'm hedging my bets on finding 
>| anybody because all of the groups seemed to have died out or been spammed to 
>| death at least.
>| 
>| I'm back in the dev saddle after about 4 or 5 years out and I'm just finding 
>| my way in this new world.
>| 
>| Ajax actually working is the most beautfiul thing I've seen up to yet and 
>| I'm desperately trying to embrace jquery, but I've come unstuck with a 
>| particular feature that I need.
>| 
>| Basically I have a HTML table of data and I want to manipulate each cell by 
>| right or left clicking on the cell and selecting a value from what I'd call 
>| a bespoke contextual/pop-up menu.
>| 
>| Now the actual values will be straightforwarrd string values, but I do need 
>| the ability to go down/into a sub-level menu from it, as some options will 
>| be say Fruit and I need to provide a sub-menu to select Apple, Banana or 
>| Pear.
>| 
>| The reason I'm going for a right-click option is because many users will 
>| select the menu, have a look and probably not pick an option so the natural 
>| get around for this is to left click somewhere on the screen.  I'd prefer to 
>| go the left-click route as I don't think tablets, ipads, etc have a 
>| right-click option (do they?), but if you go left-click with a pop-up what 
>| would be the best way to let them get away from it if they didn't want to 
>| make a selection?  'If mouseout...'????
>| 
>| Anyway I've scoured the internet and I know I might be missing something 
>| here, but all of the Jquery ones I've tried **really** lag the page load and 
>| I'm only testing with about 30 rows x 8 cols of data.  I foresee three times 
>| as many rows at any one time.
>| 
>| From what I've seen I can throw an ID and value at ajax to update the cell 
>| innerText and the DB and I can see the principal that you show a div above 
>| the selected cell, which in effect contains the menu (and sub-menus), but 
>| this is alll virgin terriority for me and I wondered if anybody had got 
>| round this sort of problem???
>| 
>| Thanks 
>| 

Can you put up a sample page so we can see what you actually want to
do (your description isn't all that clear to me).

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Good Context/Pop-up Menu Routine "Mojo" <please@dont.spam.com> - 2012-03-19 22:26 +0000
  Re: Good Context/Pop-up Menu Routine Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-03-20 11:47 +1100
  Re: Good Context/Pop-up Menu Routine Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2012-03-20 19:51 +0100
  Re: Good Context/Pop-up Menu Routine Dr J R Stockton <reply1212@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-21 19:48 +0000

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