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Even the menu is still there if you click on the window icon in the upper left corner of the window (or the space where it would have been). Interesting tidbit
by b15h0p 10y ago
Even the menu is still there if you click on the window icon in the upper left corner of the window (or the space where it would have been).
Interesting tidbit: There is even a context menu on scroll bars - no idea who would use this, but it is there.
- aidos 10y agoIs the menu still there on all the apps? So the icon is missing, but the menu opens up? That's brilliant. Haven't used Windows for a long time but every time I do I'm still amazed to find that close behaviour still works. The link I posted above links to another one with more historical context. I'd never clicked that the icon was meant to look like a space bar. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2006/06/08/you-windows-3-1-lovers/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2006/06/08/you-wind...
- kayamon 10y agoHeh, yeah the context menu on the scroll bars is my go-to tell to discover whether it's a real scroll bar widget or an imitation one. (Gotta write an article on that too one day)
- b15h0p 10y agoYeah, I like that too. Makes you think twice about re-implementing widgets because of the insane amount of functionality that is tied even to the simplest widgets and still invisible. Think of how hard it would be to re-implement a dropdown, for instance: You would need to implement keyboard navigation (arrow keys), jump-to-entry (using the letter-keys), srolling with the mouse wheel, flipping through entries while the dropdown menu is closed and probably a thousand other things that I never used but some people do.
- peteri 10y agoI did do this back in the VB5 days and it was a proper pain. From memory I couldn't get the listbox window to draw outside of it's hosting window (needed for controls at the bottom of a window) and allow moving of the hosting window at the same time. In the end I think I cheated and drew the list box on the parent with an option to go up or down depending on it's relative position. Certainly was complicated.
- Senji 10y agoNot really a cheat. Context menus already do that. Try opening a context menu near the bottom of your browser window.
- Senji 10y agoNow imagine a "combobox".
- MagnumOpus 10y ago>context menu on scroll bars - no idea who would use this It is for accessibility. Alternative input methods, like emulating the mouse by keyboard for instance, might not have mouse-drag functionality, but will have a right-click function.
- Senji 10y agoNot in firefox it seems, but it's pretty neat.