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Menus Motivator: the User Interface
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info and Tips for Popup Menus Motivator
When you
click on dialog's button #3, you will see menu-outlines appear on your
webpage. Their positions will show where on the page the popup menus are
currently set to open. With the Design View window Maximized (very important)
simply move the outlines to the desired locations, open the Command again
and click button #4 to save your changes (leave the Finished checkbox
un-checked for now) . Simple enough you say. Well it is! Except now you
must test your page in a browser, varying its width to see if the real
popup menus (ignore the menu-outlines!) slide properly across the screen.
Probably not. You then call the Command again and, firrst move the menu-outlines
in Design View to get them where you want them in the maximized Browser
window, and then, using the terribly helpful rules below, change
the Adjustment so the next time you test in the browser the popup menus
slide as you wish. When you've got it right, and it may take several tries
to get it the way you want it, you should check the Finished checkbox
before a final click of button #4.
 
Your choice of A, B or C for the menu edge to align determines
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The
User Adjustment, which ranges from -500 to +500 in my
tests, can be applied to each menu to help keep it more-or-less
stationary with respect to a point on the screen (as it moves
with browser width-resizing). The farther to the left the "tether"
point is on the page (at full-screen) the higher the Adjustment
generally must be, but it very much depends on the other objects
within the table bearing the Tether point. It is an inexact
science at best. Depending on your page structure, do not expect
the Menus to remain exactly positioned - use this Command to
keep the menus on-screen, but not necessarily in an exact position
with respect to the tether point.
In
guessing at the correct Adjustment, think "If the menus
are lagging behind the motion of the Tether point as the browser
is narrowed, then they need MORE Motivation so I'll ADD to
the Adjustment. If, on the other hand, the menus slide too
far to left of the Tether, then they need LESS Motivation
and I'll REDUCE the Adjustment."
To
test the results of each guesstimate, first re-call the Command,
click button 4: "Save new values", and then view
the page while resizing the browser window. Once you are happy
with the (relative lack of) motion of the menus with respect
to the desired Tether point, call the Command one last time
and click the "Finished..." checkbox to remove the
temporary menu-outline layers.
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