Popup position? Thread last updated on 2003-07-13 05:52:00

Posted by member 12025 on 2003-07-07 18:41:39

I want to get submenus from a popup to display such that the top-left corner is at the cursor's current position (upon clicking), so I can more quickly navigate the menus. Is there any relatively simple way to do this?

Posted by member 7 on 2003-07-08 03:43:40 link

You could probably do it using an mzscript (%{mousex} %{mousey}) and the positioning parameters of popup2 !bangs.

Posted by member 37809 on 2003-07-08 04:25:33 link

that behavior would require that you make not submenus, but popup entries that merely call other popups (that are your 'submenus').

Posted by member 12025 on 2003-07-08 17:38:31 link

Thanks. I'll work with it in a couple hours.

Edit: Worked first try using separate popups.

Posted by member 7 on 2003-07-09 01:37:07 link

/me remebers a certain config menu in one of tnl's themes...

Posted by member 12025 on 2003-07-09 23:48:41 link

...and where would such a thing be found? I'd be all for trying it as long as it doesn't require a restart to undo damage (I tried Glaze 1.1 looking for something a few days ago...evil!)
The themes here go straight from th to tr.
I've been out of lurking LS forums for several months, so...

Posted by member 2112 on 2003-07-10 01:05:21 link

Sorry to deviate from the theme of this thread.

If you have a problem with Glaze, shoot me an e-mail. I'm keen to fix any problems users might find. I know of a couple of bugs with it but certainly nothing that requires a reboot so your experiance with Glaze has me curious.

Posted by member 12025 on 2003-07-11 01:43:57 link

DrWorm: I *HATE* anything changing the display settings. But that's easy to fix in and of itself. In this case, it was that windowsblinds didn't like it and crashed after a few seconds of running. logging off and back on didn't fix it, but a restart did. I imagine the said restart would probably have fixed it if I stayed with Glaze as well, but I didn't find what I was looking for in there, so I don't know.
(BTW, what I was looking for was Skinbox, but I couldn't remember the name at the time--I already had PNGs ready and found that Label didn't like them)

Posted by member 12025 on 2003-07-11 01:46:06 link

Theme is now up and running, just needs neatening up with the RCs, and since I'm kinda lazy :) :
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1090589&forumid=1

Posted by member 2112 on 2003-07-11 07:03:54 link

I don't like themes that change my system colours either :) Which is why I took advantage of a feature that will automatically restore your old system colours when you disable syscolors through the theme popup.

I've never tested themes with Windows Blinds and since I'm not a fan of WB I doubt I ever will. Though if someone does find a bug and knows how to correct let me know so I can implement the change in any later versions.

Posted by member 6742 on 2003-07-13 04:52:46 link

Cerbie, looking to make context menus, or just trying to conserve screen-space (out of curiousity)? Would atypical PopupOffsetX and PopupOffsetY parameter achieve a similar effect (not exactly at the mouse cursor, but....)

Tangentially: Have used WindowBlinds intermitantly over a year's time and haven't noticed any erratic behavior when using Glaze.

Posted by member 12025 on 2003-07-13 05:52:00 link

Ideally I wanted to be able to click on the option and have the top-left of the menu be at the cursor, the first menu selections selected, so I could just click-click-click down the menus, without making L-shaped mouse movements all over. it's a bit more work making individual menus, but it workd.