Learning from across the way #11

[richmond62]

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... on#p232439

This is fascinating, and useful.

Although there seem to be 2 things there that are confused.

[richmond62]

Here is one of the 2 things:
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[richmond62]

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And this is part of the way towards the other thing mentioned there.

[tperry2x]

These "Accordion menus" seem a bit old UI design - and not necessarily in a good way. They aren't really used in... much? / anything? anymore.
Unless you know of good examples.

I'm not overly worried about implementing that because I personally think it's a bit of a bad way to do things. Menuitems with hierarchical popouts to the right-hand-side are a lot more efficient, and are a concept most people are familiar with.

I am looking at revamping the way menus are drawn for Linux in the IDE though, as there's an annoying bug which causes them to be sluggish (at the most random of times) - which I can't tie down at the moment. This is my current focus as attempts at dealing with the engine code on MacOS have my head 'fried' at the moment.

[richmond62]

Personally that 'old UI design' thing is something that has never really bothered me as UI design seems to be subject to the same sort of fickle fashions as women's shoes.

My main concern with UI is generally to get the job done for end-users in a way they find relatively easy.

Over 'there' all sorts of 'Yes Men' have been running diwn our OXT inherited GUI in favour of the 'Create' single window thingy.

Just downloaded the GIMP 3.0 RC1 and the first thing I did was disable GIMP's single window mode, which now seems to be default.

I don't think I would ever bother with that Accordion 'thang', but spent 15 minutes (because I'm kinky, and it was 'there'), running that first stack up as LC made a thing about it on a webpage and did NOT show how it could be implemented (really odd) and I thought it would be fun to try to roll my own.

Any sort of exercise of this sort is useful as a mental stretch.