[haiku-development] Re: Working on Haiku's Mail app
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:22:18 +0100
Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:02 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> up"? Drop-down is more correct IMO, as the menu drops "down" and
> >> doesn't pop "up" on activation.
> > Well it does pop up in the sense of the Z-order...
> That and it only "drops down" in the spatial sense if there is
> room...if the control summoning the menu is at or near the bottom of
> the screen, the menu will open upwards instead since that's where the
> available space to open the menu is. As such I'd be for sticking to
> the popup name as well since drop down doesn't accurately describe
> either its behavior or its control name.
It usually opens such that the currently selected item is over the
widget - it does not only depend on the on screen location.
Bye,
Axel.
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