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

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 26 08:07:00 GMT 2016


On Aug 25 15:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> 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 '▾' 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?

ACK.


Corinna

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