Hierarchal Menu Behavior in Swing

When a user pops up a hierarchical menu, she should be able to drag directly to the desired item in that menu. The shortest path to the desired menu item is usually a diagonal path.
Under Swing, the user must first drag horizontally into the hierarchical menu and then drag down that menu to select the item, otherwise the hierarchical menu closes. This is very disconcerting behavior for users who are expecting the normal platform behavior (the Mac and Windows allow direct [diagonal] dragging).
I feel this is a significant problem, but I tried submitting it as a bug and didn't get much interest from Sun. Please post your agreement (or disagreement) to this topic so that I can build a stronger case. Thanks.

Personally, I find it mildly amazing that Sun showed "no interest" in this issue. It's the lack of attention paid to exactly these sorts of seemingly minor, but actually extremely important, interface issues that has caused developers to look for alternatives to Swing. SWT, anyone?
If Sun cares about the user experience they will pay attention to this issue, and others like it...

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I'm using Dreamweaver 2004 MX
Created a Pop up menu behavior in my Template and it worked
OK.
When new html pages are created based on theTemplate, the Pop
up menu does not work. Any suggestions?

Are you sitting down? Read this -
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"jbudraitis" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm using Dreamweaver 2004 MX
>
> Created a Pop up menu behavior in my Template and it
worked OK.
>
> When new html pages are created based on theTemplate,
the Pop up menu does
> not
> work. Any suggestions?
>

How to create file menu in the swing?

How to create file menu or any menu in the swing?
Please help me.

How to create file menu or any menu in the
swing?
Please help me.By file menu, do you mean where you can choose a file to open or save to? If so, have you had a look at the File Chooser component? If not, please click on the link in the previous sentence to the Sun tutorial.
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Greetings—
The "Show Pop-Up Menu" under Add Behaviors is grayed-out and
won't allow additional links to be added to the templates. I'm
currently on DW MX 2004.
Thank you

> Does anyone have any suggestions what to do so this
selection is not
> grayed
> out?
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CS3. It will
allow you to edit a LEGACY MENU, but not create a new menu
from scratch.
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"Moni057" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I just got CS3 (and un-installed DW8) and I have learned
that the "Show
>Pop-Up
> Menu" behavior is depreciated. The problem I'm having is
it is Grayed out
> (And
> yes, I made sure I had a 'link' selected when I tried to
choose this
> behavior)
Is there a setting in the Preferences that I missed or is CS3
just teasing
> me w/a remembrance of this easy to use pop up menu
maker? Any help is
> appreciated :)
>
> Thanks,
> Monica
>
> [email protected]
>
> ps: I do know about the "Spry assets" but I want to see
if the above
> option is
> possible first. thanx :)
>

CS3 "Show Pop-Up Menu" Behavior Help

I just got CS3 (and un-installed DW8) and I have learned that
the "Show Pop-Up Menu" behavior is depreciated. The problem I'm
having is it is Grayed out (And yes, I made sure I had a 'link'
selected when I tried to choose this behavior) Does anyone have any
suggestions what to do so this selection is not grayed out? Is
there a setting in the Preferences that I missed or is CS3 just
teasing me w/a remembrance of this easy to use pop up menu maker?
Any help is appreciated :)
Thanks,
Monica
[email protected]
ps: I do know about the "Spry assets" but I want to see if
the above option is possible first. thanx :)

> Does anyone have any suggestions what to do so this
selection is not
> grayed
> out?
The functionality has been REMOVED as a primary function in
CS3. It will
allow you to edit a LEGACY MENU, but not create a new menu
from scratch.
This is a good thing. The DW menus were indescribably
horrible.
In their place, use the Spry menus, or -
Check the uberlink and MacFly tutorials at PVII -
http://www.projectseven.com/
and the Navbar tutorial/articles at Thierry's place
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/
Or this one (more recent article):
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp
Or to get it done fast, go here -
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
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"Moni057" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f3na5s$9lv$[email protected]..
>I just got CS3 (and un-installed DW8) and I have learned
that the "Show
>Pop-Up
> Menu" behavior is depreciated. The problem I'm having is
it is Grayed out
> (And
> yes, I made sure I had a 'link' selected when I tried to
choose this
> behavior)
Is there a setting in the Preferences that I missed or is CS3
just teasing
> me w/a remembrance of this easy to use pop up menu
maker? Any help is
> appreciated :)
>
> Thanks,
> Monica
>
> [email protected]
>
> ps: I do know about the "Spry assets" but I want to see
if the above
> option is
> possible first. thanx :)
>

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I need the action for menu in java swing

hai friends
have a peace day.
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regards
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Hi,
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is it exist in another place or i need to install it ,
how can i solve this issue .

lionardo_1977 wrote:
> i can't see show popup menu in behaviors in Dreamweaver
CS3 , is it exist in another place or i need to install it ,
> how can i solve this issue .
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find it in the ~Deprecated flyout when you click the + button on
the Behaviors panel.
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that already has a popup menu on it and you cannot add new one to
page that doesn't have one on it already. As this feature is
deprecated Adobe suggest working with the Spry menus (on the Insert
bar) instead.
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options beyond what you get out of the box for the Spry menus, you
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Show pop-up menu behavior

For some reason when I select my object to attach a
Pop-up Menu from the behaviors panel it is grayed out. What am I
doing wrong? Please help!

Frankly, what you are doing wrong is using the Pop-up menus
in the first
place. You have no idea how awful these are. Please read this
http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/08/11/the-sordid-tale-of-mm_menu
Murray
On 10/8/07 9:43 AM, in article
fedc5b$r3d$[email protected],
"weilerm1983" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
For some reason when I select my object to attach a
Pop-up Menu
> from the behaviors panel it is grayed out. What am I
doing wrong? Please
> help!

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