On 8/18/10, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) <o...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > While there were some good things about the v1 implementation of pie > menus, they also had some flaws - such as not opening a submenu centered > on the mouse click.
I actually puzzled over this a bit when I first realised that Second Life's pie menus worked this way. Originally, the pie menus worked well when you didn't click too close to the edge of the screen but didn't actually open under the mouse cursor if you did. Since the "More..." item is sensibly always the southmost one, opening new submenus centered on the mouse would cause the pie menu to drift down the screen until it hit the bottom and caused problems. Also, opening the submenu at the same location has the nice side-effect that the mouse remains over the "More..." option for the pie menus that are nested 3 or more levels deep. What I have been contemplating is how to make it possible to open the next layer of a pie menu without moving the mouse at all. Sadly, it'd probably break too much from normal UI conventions to be worth doing. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
