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click-through casacading menu
A click-through cascading menu allows you to
pop the cascaded menu directly underneath the cursor, making it available for immediate
use.
You'll find you can get to 2nd and even 3rd level cascased menuitems remarkably quickly.
Cascading menus are an excellent way to organize and group actions within an application.
They allow users to establish a visual roadmap to the various functional bits and pieces of an app,
and they allow designers to arrange things in useful hierarchies.
However, they're not so great to use due to the amount of mouse travel necessary
to walk through the successive menus, and this inefficiency is paid out continuously
once the user is familiar with the roadmap.
Argh.
Additionally the click-through cascade nicely allows traditionally cascaded menus as well.
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glyph
In InterViews graphics, very elegantly,
an object
that knows how to draw itself.
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non-lossy visual design
Visual design
which allows movement of individual visual elements without loss of context.
While specific elements come in and out of view, the context retains its shape
so that the bigger picture is not lost or compromised.
The commonly termed "pan and scan" techniques represent the visual opposite, i.e. lossy
visual design.
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sightline
Vertical dotted
line
along which depth indicators
for named data objects are placed.
Extends downward from either the group expander or, in the
case of attributes, the identifier glyph of the data object to which the
attributes are attached.
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time-release button
A button which releases a menu if mouse-up is
not received within the configured time.
Otherwise, it takes immediate action on mouse-up.
The most-common action is assigned to the immediate action
of the button; related but less-commonly used actions are
placed in the menu.
A time release button appears as a usual button on mouse
enter,
but on mouse down presents a gradient
underscore
to indicate "hold for more available actions".
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