Re: fmenu

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:07:58PM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
> Can it be done that tapping on a icon and keeping it pressed pops up a
> menu after some timeout?

please no - not only is it wince's stupid "let's emulate a 2nd mouse
button" trick, it's also one of the DON'Ts of user-interface-design.

there is no obvious way to learn about this functionality. wince needs
a short tutorial on boot, much like win95 required the animated "click
here to start" scroll. if you're forced to put crap like that in, it
should really make you think about the concept, shouldn't it?

if we want menus, there has to be a VISIBLE way. for example, use 2
buttons instead of one - one for the icon, one for the name. clicking
the icon launches the app, clicking the name tag opens a menu.

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