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Do you know of any work about how to combine pie menus and keyboard usage? Mousing is very uncomfortable for me, but if a pie menu could be used with a keyboard
by joeblubaugh 3y ago
Do you know of any work about how to combine pie menus and keyboard usage? Mousing is very uncomfortable for me, but if a pie menu could be used with a keyboard-attached joystick, it might be a really quick way to work.
- DonHopkins 3y agoPie menus work well with trackpads and trackpoints (keyboard clitoris), as well as analog and digital 4- or 8-directional joysticks, and even numeric keypads and arrow keys. If you arrange your menus into 4- and 8-item pie menus, they are uniformly navigable and memorable for many types of input devices including keyboards. Four and eight items are ideal for muscle memory, and also cognitive memory too. So using pie menu layouts that map directly to keyboards and digital joysticks works really well. The ActiveX pie menus I implemented for Internet Explorer a couple decades ago supported full keyboard navigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnC8x9x3Xag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnC8x9x3Xag
- cyberax 3y agoBasically, you use cursor keys to select the direction. So you can just memorize the paths to the correct items. Modern console games use the same idea for communication wheels, that are usable from game controllers.
- hypercube33 3y agoGreat for game controllers and keyboard use but I find them horrible for mouse use, personally. moving a bound mouse cursor around a donut is really awkward when you're using to x or y movement