By the way you can always to make your dialog function like menu. I recall I did it once with Qt 3. I bet in Qt 4 or 5 it will be even easier.
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Alex Malyushytskyy <alexmal...@gmail.com>wrote: > AFAIK on Windows that is native behavior. > Also from design point of view long menu in general are considered bad > design. > If I were you I would do something similar to what Excel does - display > dialog. > You might also display a few the most used or/and last used commands > together with option to open the dialog > or try to group commands and create nested menus. Do not go too deep > though. > > Regards, > Alex > > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:25 AM, John Weeks <j...@wavemetrics.com> wrote: > >> We have a couple very long menus in our application (containing a list of >> functions in our internal programming language). On Macintosh, the menu >> simple runs from the top to the bottom of the screen and scrolls very >> quickly. On Windows, it shows as a multi-column menu that fills the monitor! >> >> Is there a way to get a single, scrolling column on Windows? >> >> A work-around would be to provide a dialog instead, with a list of >> functions. That requires more clicks to get to the desired item. >> >> -John Weeks >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Interest mailing list >> Interest@qt-project.org >> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >> >> >
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