Illustrator's weak right-click menu...

Why is the right-click menu on Illustrator so weak? Other Adobe products seem to have a plethora of menu items when you right click on a selected object... I can't count the number of times I've right clicked in Illustrator to copy something only to rediscover that not even "cut" "copy" or "paste" are available. Why is this?

Because right-click to bring up a menu is:
Much faster and easier than keyboard shortcuts
Reduces cognitive load by having a consistent way to display what can be done with what you are right-clicking on
Would be more consistent with some other CS products
Even when there are right-click menus available in similar places in CS products (such as the layers in Photoshop and InDesign), the menus are not the same. Not even close, really. This inconsistency with right-click menus matches the inconsistency with just about every other UI/UX aspect across the CS. And that is inexcusable. When working across multiple applications, these inconsistencies create a persistent cognitive load on the user, due to the need to keep in mind which application they are in and how to perform the same functions in this application as the other applications. It is greatly complicated when one spends days or weeks working mostly in one application, then days or weeks working mostly in another application, and then switching back to the original one. It is like learning it all over again.
This prevents apps in the CS from every becoming natural and second-nature, where tasks are performed without concious thought on how to use the UI to accomplish them. If a person was only ever in one application, this is not an issue. But it is sold and marketed as a suite, and even has "suite" in the name. But the UI, UX, and workflows reflect the reality: it is a collection of individual applications that just happen to be sold as a package.

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Are you saying you have an icon on the far right side and when you rt click on it, your pointer ends up opening wherever it lands? That is a two step process, or normally should be at least a two step process. Do you have a Mouse in your Control Panel? You should check, because there may be some properties with which you can play. For instance, I can switch primary and secondary functions on my mouse buttons by checking a box.
When I rt click on right side, the menu opens on the left.
When I rt click on left side, the menu opens on the right.
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dont know if this will help but heres the table i remembered :
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/10383
Please remember to accept any solutions and give kudos, Thanks
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case EVENT_RIGHT_CLICK:
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case EVENT_SELECTION_CHANGE:
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if (eventData1)
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Hi,
one possible approach of solving this problem is looking closer at the error message: The error "the Index passed is out of range" tells you that something is wrong with the index, either it is too small or too large So why don't you set a breakpoint and check the index value, it might be useful information...
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Hi,
I'm running 32-bit version of SQL Developer v. 3.2.20.09 build 09.87, and I used the built in context menu (right-clicking from the schema browser) today to copy a table. However, none of the comments copied. When I dug into the PL/SQL that the menu-item is using, I realized that it fails because it doesn't handle single quotes within the comment string.
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declare
l_sql varchar2(32767);
c_tab_comment varchar2(32767);
procedure run(p_sql varchar2) as
begin
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end;
begin
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end loop;
end loop;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL;
end;
The string of the table comment on WE_ENROLL_SNAPSHOT is this:
WBIG table of frozen, point-in-time snapshots of Enrolled Students by Category/term/pidm. "Category" is historically, and commonly, our CENSUS snapshot; but, can also describe other frequencies, or categorizations, such as: End-of-Term (EOT), etc. Note: Prior to this table existing, Census-snapshots were stored in SATURN.SNAPREG_ALL. All FALL and SPRING term records prior-to-and-including Spring 2013 ('201230') have been migrated into this table -- EXCEPT a few select prior to Fall 2004 (200410) records where there are duplicates on term/pidm. NO Summer snapshots existed in SNAPREG_ALL, but were queried and stored retroactively (including terms prior to Spring 2013) for the purpose of future on-going year-over-year analysis and comparison.
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c_tab_comment VARCHAR2(32767);
begin
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EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL;
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Thoughts?
thanks//jacob

PaigeT wrote:
I know about quick drop, but it isn't helpful here. I want to be able to right click on a string or array wire, navigate to the string or array palette, and select the corresponding "Empty?" comparator. In this case, since I do actually know where those functions live, and I'm already using my mouse to right click on the wire, typing ctrl-space to open quick drop and then typing in the function name is actually more work than navigating to it in the palette. It would just be nice to have it on hand in the location I naturally go to look for it the first time.
I don't agree with this work flow. Right hand on mouse, left hand on home keys. Pressing CTRL + Space is done with the left hands, and then you could assign "ea" to "Empty Array" both of which is accessible with the left hand. Darren posted a bunch of great shortcuts for the right handed developer.
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-20453
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Apple - we need you to solve!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
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3     1     -1     NULL     C     1011     10.000000     0.000000
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3     3     15     4     C     1013     20.000000     0.000000
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Hello & welcome!
No worries, you did great for a 1st post, & this is generally a friendly place.
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