how to show 10thousand items in menu? [modified]

[yogish293]

i have more than 10 thousand items with more than 100 hierarchy level, creating contextmenu on right click giving problem,.. pls give me some inputs..

modified on Monday, January 10, 2011 9:01 AM

[HimanshuJoshi]

One word for you; Redesign. Even if you succeed in creating that mess it would look horrible just opening 10K items in a menu, and a contextmenu at that.

[Lost User]

Ignoring the fact if this is userfriendly or not, it shouldn't be impossible to create something like that. With 100 hierarchy levels and 10000 items, it's not needed to have the actual 10000 items in the menu at the same time. You can add the sub items when their parent is opened, rather than adding everything at once. e.g. Visible menu: File | Edit | View | History | Bookmarks | Tools | Help That's 7 required visible items. Now when the user clicks on an item, for example Edit, you'd insert the appropriate sub items; Undo | Redo | Cut | Copy | Paste | Delete | Select all | Find | Find again Now you've added only 10 items, since you can ignore all the subitems under File, View, History etc.

[Lost User]

I would suggest you have 9,990 too many. Nobody can possibly navigate that many items (nor would they want to) in a main window menu, let alone a context menu. Go back to the drawing board and re-think what you are trying to achieve.

I must get a clever new signature for 2011.

[Yusuf]

yogish293 wrote:

0 thousand items with more than 100 hierarchy level,

I hope that is a typo. If not there is something horrible wrong with your design. Having 10K menu entries is simply not the way to design an application. One word comes to mind, Refactor your design.

Yusuf May I help you?

[Stefan_Lang]

I take it there are tons of functions being called by these menu items that are technically the same, but are just applied on different data, with different options, in different modes of operation, etc.. Provided this is true, you should seriously consider all these entries to be replaced by a call to just one dialog box that lets you select all the extra parameters you need. Do that with all menu of your current menu items and see how many individual function calls you end up with - I bet it's less than a 100. If not then this is the most weird application I've ever heard of, apart from MS Word. ;P

[_Superman_]

Please consider usability, especially when designing UIs. I've come to understand that UI design is very involved and it is a winning factor between competing products. You must first think if you yourself will use such a software. In this case think of selecting a random menu item every minute. Run that through your mind for some time and see if you give up using it.

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[CPallini]

yogish293 wrote:

pls give me some inputs..

You already have so many... :rolleyes:

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[Rolf Kristensen]

Think the main rule is that if the user have more than 8 menu items to choose between, then you should consider redesigning the GUI.

[Lost User]

yogish293 wrote:

i have more than 10 thousand items with more than 100 hierarchy level, creating contextmenu on right click giving problem

What is the problem?

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[yu jian]

Oh MyGod, Does not the sytem error?