Dropdown box

[zou]

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@Poema wrote:

Thank you all for trying to solve my problem.

As I see there is no easy way, so I will try to create my own xcontrol dropdown box. If someone still has a better idea, please let me know.

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Here is what I did:

XCombobox 

Not exactly what you want, but might be a useful example.

[Poema]

Top, It's good example to start with

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Poema wrote:

In the background is there a calculation that is running continuously but must be temporarily interrupted while the user is selecting another value or want to select another value.

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You don't need mouse move for that. In fact, mouse move doesn't mean much, as the mouse might stall for just a while... So you'd need a time out.

Also, the user can select a combobox value without using the dropdown, mouse move won't work.

In this snippet I

1) changed a click to a right click (activating the menu)

2) on menu activation populate the menu with the ring items

3) on menu dismiss I know the user is done

3) on menu selection I know the user is done and a value was selected

You can add tags to the active menu item.

As a bonus, menus can have layers.

This should work with comboboxes too.

[Poema]

Thanks I will try the example.

FYI  When the mouse events are stopped the calculation may go on because the user is not doing anything and when they go into de text field without the dropdown I have enough other events.

[Poema]

For anyone who wants to know. I solved it with the 'keyfocus' property. I start checking the 'keyfocus' value when I enter the dropdown field (mouse enter) and as long as the 'keyfocus' flag is high, I stop the background calculation.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Poema wrote:

For anyone who wants to know. I solved it with the 'keyfocus' property. I start checking the 'keyfocus' value when I enter the dropdown field (mouse enter) and as long as the 'keyfocus' flag is high, I stop the background calculation.

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Thanks for sharing your solution.

I don't really see how that works, though. The key focus is not directly related to the menu being active.

The key focus is lost when you activate the menu, but when do you give the control key focus?

If you give key focus on mouse enter, you can detect the menu because key focus is lost. However, how do you detect when the user is done?

[Poema]

Hi,

For your information, the solution is working for a 'dropdown box' it was not the intention to use it with the menu. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

kind regards,