Fisheye menus [modified] Not necessarily menus

[Jim Crafton]

Now that *is* cool! I wonder how well it works in real life though? It certainly looks like a good idea!

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[Scott Dorman]

Don't know about .NET 2.0 (WinForms) but in WPF most of this wouldn't be too difficult.

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[Christopher Duncan]

I think if you have so many entries on one menu that you need something like this, there are larger issues... Perhaps the Office 2007 guys are on the right track after all. :)

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[Jim Crafton]

Well forget menus. What about as a replacement for scrollbars in a list control?

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[Member 96]

Wooops, I didn't mean menus per se I was thinking more about list controls. Try as we might there is always going to be a need to list a very large number of things.

[Matias Szulman]

Well, after reading this message I tried to build something like it, and I got something working. It hasn't got quality enough to be an article, at least for now, so if you want I can send it to you by mail so you can see it. It's on .NET 2.0 and C# Matias Szulman

[Raj Lal]

John Cardinal wrote:

wonder how hard it would be to implement in .net...

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[Dan Neely]

page won't load.

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[Member 96]

Works for me just now, maybe a temporary thing.

[Member 96]

You should post it as an article.

[RichardGrimmer]

I guess it would be fairly easy in the web using js / css - our current web context menu uses two styles to high / low light items - they could be modified to crank up / down the text size I guess...in fact - I think I'm gonna try that one! :)

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[Gary R Wheeler]

Yeah, but can you imagine the bazillion lines of custom-draw code you'd have to write? X|

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[Matias Szulman]

Posted. It's at http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/FishEyeMenu.asp[^]