[PATCH setup 0/4] Use a pop-up menu to select chooser view filter

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 25 20:34:00 GMT 2016


On 2016-08-25 14:11, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 24/08/2016 17:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> One question: Usually the popup menu itself reflects the current choice.
>> So, wouldn't it make more sense to have the text "View" just as plain
>> text to the left, and the actual popup menu next right to it, showing
>> the current choice?  Yes?  No?  Shut up?
>
> Yeah, there is probably better visual language to be used here.
>
> If the popup menu itself reflects the current choice, perhaps we don't
> need a caption with the current choice at all (i.e. just a button that
> says "View" and that's all...)
>
> I'd really like that button to have a 'â–¾' to indicate it has a
> drop-down, but that seems hard to achieve.
>
> (This might be done with the BS_SPLITBUTTON style (which combines a
> button and dropdown menu), but that is sadly only supported by common
> controls on Vista or later.)

We're dropping Cygwin support for XP anyway, so why not from the 
installer as well?

-- 
Yaakov



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