[Support #OOD-935953]: Right-clicking on chart produced by data probe/time series gives a different menu in Windows than other operating systems. [1001]

> 
> Hi guys!
> 
> I sent this a few weeks ago, but I haven't seen a response. Julien did
> some initial work to get these menus working, but our testers didn't
> think it was still working quite right. Have you had a chance to look
> into it again?
> 
> Thanks!
> Becky
> 
> On 9/7/2011 1:36 PM, McIDAS Help Desk wrote:
> >
> > Have you had the chance to look into simplifying this, so that there
> > is only one menu shown to the user?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/24/2011 1:41 PM, McIDAS Help Desk wrote:
> >> Hello -
> >>
> >> I tested this in the IDV nightly this morning (dated 8/24), and you
> >> can now access both of the menus outside of Windows (I tested this on
> >> a Mac). However, I don’t think that this is working 100% correctly
> >> yet. I don’t see the need to have two different menus, one when
> >> holding down the right mouse button, and one when releasing it. I
> >> think the only one that is needed is the menu you see when you
> >> release the mouse button.
> >>
> >> Would it be difficult to completely remove the mouse down menu
> >> options, and replace them with the mouse up menu? Then you would only
> >> have one action on the mouse click and it would behave like other
> >> right-clicks elsewhere in the UI.
> >>
> >> If you did that, the only thing that would need to be added back in
> >> would be the Properties option from the mouse down. The two
> >> Properties options are confusing as they are now. On mouse down,
> >> Properties means the Data Probe Properties, which are really the
> >> properties of the Axis Lines. On mouse up, Properties means the Chart
> >> Properties, which are really the properties of the Labels.
> >>
> >> Maybe the mouse down could look like this?
> >>
> >> Properties
> >> ->Axis Lines
> >> ->Labels
> >> Copy
> >> Save As
> >> Print
> >> Zoom In ->
> >> Zoom Out ->
> >> Auto Range ->
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> - Bob Carp


I think two popup menus not a good design here, we should only have one popup 
menu existed. 
We should somehow combine these two menu, and have better naming for the 
properties item.

Yuan
> >>
> >> On 8/24/2011 1:02 PM, Becky Schaffer wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Yuan and Julien -
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for getting this fixed so quickly! Bob is planning on testing
> >>> this today and he'll let you know if he finds anything else.
> >>>
> >>> I also asked if you want us to continue sending you the IDV bugs as
> >>> we find them or if you would rather if we did not send them to you
> >>> at all. Can you let me know what you'd prefer? Until I hear
> >>> otherwise from you, I'll keep sending them (they usually come a few
> >>> at a time after our weekly meetings).
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again!
> >>> - Becky
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Yuan,
> >>>>
> >>>> This problem is a high priority item for us to get fixed in
> >>>> McIDAS-V. We're planning on looking into it, but do not yet have a
> >>>> programmer assigned. I'll have the programmer contact you when he
> >>>> starts to look at it. If you get around to looking at this before
> >>>> we do, can you please let me know? That way, we're both not working
> >>>> on the same items at the same time.
> >>>>
> >>>> Along those lines, do you want us to continue sending you the IDV
> >>>> bugs as we find them, or would you rather if we did not send them
> >>>> to you at all?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks, Yuan!
> >>>>
> >>>> (This didn't send an automated response from your system, so I
> >>>> didn't have a ticket number to reply to. Hope it's okay that I'm
> >>>> not sending this to support-idv. Let me know if you have a ticket
> >>>> number and want me to resend it.)
> >>>>
> >>>> - Becky
> >>>
> >>> On 8/19/2011 2:32 PM, Unidata IDV Support wrote:
> >>>> Dear User,
> >>>>
> >>>> Your issue should be fixed. Please confirm tomorrow.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best,
> >>>>
> >>>> Unidata IDV Support
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is a big problem with users on some platforms, because they
> >>>>> cannot access some of the menus. They appear to work fine on
> >>>>> Windows, but the menus do not appear on Macs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----==== Inquiry ====----
> >>>>> 1001
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----==== Summary ====----
> >>>>> Right-clicking on chart produced by data probe/time series gives a
> >>>>> different menu in Windows than other operating systems.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----==== Request ====----
> >>>>> 2011-04-13 - Bob Carp
> >>>>> When you right click on a chart produced by a Data Probe/Time
> >>>>> Series on Windows, there is one menu when you hold down the right
> >>>>> mouse button, and another when you release it. The menu that comes
> >>>>> up when you release the mouse button can only be gotten to through
> >>>>> Windows. The menu that you see in Windows when you hold down the
> >>>>> mouse button is the only one that you can get to through other
> >>>>> operating systems.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You can also get to the menu you see when you hold down the mouse
> >>>>> when you go to (In the Layer Controls tab)
> >>>>> View->Chart->Chart:...->Properties... There should be a
> >>>>> way to access both of these menus on all platforms. As right now,
> >>>>> certain options to change the chart can only be done through Windows.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ################################################################################
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://dcdbs.ssec.wisc.edu/inquiry-v/index.php?inquiry=1001
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Ticket Details
> >>>> ===================
> >>>> Ticket ID: OOD-935953
> >>>> Department: Support IDV
> >>>> Priority: High
> >>>> Status: Closed
> >>>>
> >>
> >
> 
> 


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: OOD-935953
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Critical
Status: Open