Jean-Francois Charles

I would love to navigate a [umenu] without a mouse. Would need a message to show the menu (like when we click with a mouse) then 2 messages to increment and decrement the currently hovered element, then a message to select and a message to escape without selection.

This is currently impossible. Or am I missing something?

I would love to navigate a [umenu] without a mouse. Would need a message to show the menu (like when we click with a mouse) then 2 messages to increment and decrement the currently hovered element, then a message to select and a message to escape without selection.
This is currently impossible. Or am I missing something?
Another approach I should try?
Thanks.


umenu-and-rotary-knobs

We're assuming the umenu is in scroll mode, yeah? This doesn't sound like rocket surgery (apart from the fiddly "escape" stuff) to me, but I could be misunderstanding lots of subtlety here.

Scroll mode could work, indeed, I had not thought of that, but you can't see the list of options you're going to scroll through, which I find makes for a frustrating user experience. I was more thinking of the menu in normal mode, showing the whole list. Then, you could "scroll", while still seeing the whole (or almost complete) list of options.

It would be really great to be able to use the umenu in "normal" mode, but without a mouse.

Scroll mode could work, indeed, I had not thought of that, but you can't see the list of options you're going to scroll through, which I find makes for a frustrating user experience. I was more thinking of the menu in normal mode, showing the whole list. Then, you could "scroll", while still seeing the whole (or almost complete) list of options.
It would be really great to be able to use the umenu in "normal" mode, but without a mouse.


"Say hello to my leetle fren' JSPAINTER...." :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQ8byG2mY8

I might go the jit.cellblock route instead. Needs some tweaking to make it scroll, but it should work. Thanks.

[umenu] and rotary knobs