Re: [Flightgear-devel] Automatically hide/show the menubar

[Curtis O. <cur...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote:

> Hi,
> I just committed a featurette for the menubar which is disabled by default
> but
> can be enabled by setting /sim/menubar/autovisibility/enabled to true.
>
> If enabled, the menubar is invisible and pops up when the mouse in mode 0
> hits
> the upper edge of the fgfs window. It stays visible until the mouse clicks
> somewhere outside the pui elements. Nothing new for x-plane users...
>
> Previous F-10 behaviour is untouched.
>
> Hope you like it. If so, it might be enabled by default in preferences.xml
> some day.
>

Hi Torsten,

Here's another random thought.  I don't know if it would be any better or
not, but might be interesting for some situations.  Right now we hide the
mouse pointer after 10 seconds of no mouse motion.  It might be interesting
to hide the menu at the same time?  This may not be optimal for those who
fly with the mouse, but could be useful for many other usage modes.

It might make sense to make the F10 toggle work in partnership with the
auto-hider feature rather than keeping the functions totally separate?  If
the auto-hide is turned on and the menu has become hidden, what happens when
someone presses F10?  Should this make the menu visible and turn off the
auto-hide feature (at least for a while)?

I'm worried that if auto-hide is enabled and someone presses F10 to toggle
the menu off, will the menu then not appear when you move the mouse to the
top of the screen?  If someone inadvertently presses F10 and doesn't realize
it, the menu could be lost to them.  I only worry about this because I got a
different keyboard about a year ago and I'm still forever missing my
intended key and hitting the wrong one ... especially when I'm trying to
focus on too many things at once ... like when I'm flying. :-)

Thanks!

Curt.
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