Cascading Ring Control

[gleichman]

I have a UI that uses a ring control. The problem is that usability decreases as the number of items increases. It would be nice if I could categorize the options kind of like the Windows Start menu. Has anyone done something like this?

[crelf]

I have a UI that uses a ring control. The problem is that usability decreases as the number of items increases. It would be nice if I could categorize the options kind of like the Windows Start menu. Has anyone done something like this?

Like a custom right-click menu? You can do those in 8.

[gleichman]

Like a custom right-click menu? You can do those in 8.

Yes, like a right-click menu, but as a left click on a ring control.

[crelf]

Yes, like a right-click menu, but as a left click on a ring control.

Mike Holmstrom did a custom OO-based right click menu a couple of years ago - I'm sure that could be modified pretty easily to work the way you want, although it needs the Endevo OO toolkit to work.

[Jacemdom]

maybe you could use a cascading contextual menu instead. See attached example

Download File:post-731-1159806566.zip

[gleichman]

maybe you could use a cascading contextual menu instead. See attached example

Download File:post-731-1159806566.zip

This will work. :thumbup:

I can get rid of my ring controls all together and use a list box for the left click events and to store the results.

Thanks for the example.

[crelf]

maybe you could use a cascading contextual menu instead. See attached example

Download File:post-731-1159806566.zip

:thumbup: Nicely done Jacemdom - perhaps this could be a great addition to the LAVA Code Repository?

[rkehn]

Hope Jacemdom won

[Jacemdom]

Hope Jacemdom won

[Ton Plomp]

Yes, like a right-click menu, but as a left click on a ring control.

Use a mousedown? filter event, and switch the first for the second button, this will trigger a 'Shortcut menu activation event'.

Ton