I'm not sure that I'm concerned about breaking interface guidelines if
it means creating a functional and nice looking piece of software. If
there are interface police out there, they can come and get me ;)
I know this is possible, because I've seen an RB plugin that creates a
color pallet in a menu item. I think it was Mac only and would want
something similar that is cross platform. I'm wondering is how to do
this myself using RB code. Maybe *that* isn't possible?
Is it possible to get the position of an item on a pop-down menu and
place something there?
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Mc [mailto:dragon dot fire at mac dot com]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 12:13 PM
To: rbnube at mabenterprises dot com; Getting Started
Subject: Re: Attaching controls or windows to menu items
> Is it possible to display a control from a menuitem? For instance,
> say you want to make a menu item with a submenu. When you click the
> submenu, a combobox pops out (or a canvas, slider control, etc.)
> instead of a traditional submenu text option. Is this possible?
No, and even if it was, you still shouldn't do it. It'd probably be
breaking some kind of unwritten interface guideline. It would be better
if you could group similar things like that into a dialog box or
something. However, you can duplicate the functionality of a checkbox
or a radio button group in a menu, so don't forget that.
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