I have a multi-zone conveyor displayed on my perspective view where a user can click to bring up a popup giving them control over that conveyor as a whole. Alternatively, they can right-click to show a context menu which allows them to select whether they want to bring up the popup for that whole co…

Wow reading through all of this makes me really feel like there should be better native support for custom context menus. I don't know if it makes sense to need to build this entire thing from scratch all of the time.

[image] ASF: I want the context menu to look like a regular context menu in that when I hover the mouse over an item it should be highlighted. You can use styles/css for hover effects. [image] ASF: but making the popup modal is a bit of a hack and isn't a great user experience. How so…

Native context menus on all components are a feature that's actively in development. @cmallonee keeps being a good advocate for y'all and kicking the feature back :slight_smile: I'm not the developer, but I think y'all will be pretty happy.

Of course, I didn't think of using the built in style class for hovering. I'll have a play with that! It just seems like a bad user experience because it puts that overlay over the whole screen, which is a little jarring when all you did was right click to bring up a context menu. @paul-griffith g…

I would be surprised if it takes 3 months. With the state they're currently in, 8.1.23 is possible; I wouldn't rely on that, but they're pretty close to the finish line.

[image] paul-griffith: Native context menus on all components are a feature that's actively in development. :drooling_face: This is great to hear! This is one of the things I reaaaalllllly missed from vision. Building a popup for context menus is a PITA

[image] ASF: It just seems like a bad user experience because it puts that overlay over the whole screen, which is a little jarring when all you did was right click to bring up a context menu. You could try some css trickery to make the overlay invisible, would that solve the issue for you ?

It would, but given the indication that we'll have it built in natively in a few months, I'm happy to deal with it until then. Thanks though!

[image] paul-griffith: With the state they're currently in, 8.1.23 is possible; Hey Paul, there isn't a public place showing what's currently in active development, is there? It'd be cool to know what cool new things we might expect to see in coming versions, but I can understand why this mig…

We've talked in the past about a public mirror or something of our internal bug tracker, but there's not a lot of push for it internally relative to other things, so it hasn't really gone anywhere.

Building a context menu

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paul-griffith January 19, 2023, 12:10am 12

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