This is the new release of the Pie pop up Menu implemented in Toolbook using Openscript.
Now you can navigate though the pages of this book without any menu appears on the screen. Just click the RIGHT mouseButton and (while keeping pressed it) move the pointer to :
RIGHT for NEXT PAGE
LEFT for PREVIOUS PAGE
UP for page called "Index"
DOWN for BACK
However, if you keep pressed the RIGHT mouseButton for more than half second, the Pie Menu will be visible and you can see how it works while you move the pointer around it.
The action of changing page starts when you release the mouseButton.
You can make the PieMenu disapper just releasing the mouseButton in the centre of the Pie........
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This page is called INDEX and could be the summary page of your book
The PieMenu includes the option to go to a page called "Index".
To change this option, you should replace the text "Index" in the
PieMenu field and the <go to page "Index"> script in the
RIGHT buttonUp handler of the background.
The textFields of the PieMenu are called "GoNext, GoPrev, GoBack,
GoIndex". The entire group is called "PieMenu".
To avoid undesired flickering of the commands, the DrawDirect property of the PieMenu components are set to False. For better visual results, in this book there are no DrawnDirect objects.
New improvements for the coming version:
The PieMenu v.2.5 may result useful to navigate in a book in a linear way.
Four choices are not enough to substitute completely a traditional pull down menu.
In my next release I'll try to implement a kind of hierarchy of the commands .
GoPrev
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0,0,0
Previsss
GoIndex
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0,0,0
Index
GoNext
stokecolor
0,0,0
GoBack
stokecolor
0,0,0
PieMenu
txClassName
GoIndex
stokecolor
0,0,0
Index
GoPrev
stokecolor
0,0,0
Previsss
GoBack
stokecolor
0,0,0
GoNext
stokecolor
0,0,0
PieMenu
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GoIndex
stokecolor
0,0,0
Index
GoPrev
stokecolor
0,0,0
Previsss
GoBack
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GoNext
stokecolor
0,0,0
GoPrev
stokecolor
0,0,0
Previsss
GoIndex
stokecolor
0,0,0
Index
GoNext
stokecolor
0,0,0
GoBack
stokecolor
0,0,0
Index
Suggestions
The Pie Menu is useful when you want the user to concentrate his attention only
to the context of the book, without displaying buttons on the screen.
The Pie Menu script is written in the background.
The variable's initialization is written in the book.
The Pie Menu is kept automatically in the first layer.
Hotword like this works with the LEFT mouseButton.
To create your own application, you should copy, in order, the following parts:
- the field called "Action" in the background (or backgrounds)
- the "PieMenu" group in each background of your book (and hide it)
- book and background scripts
Then send an EnterBook from the command Window to reset the variables.
I suggest anyway to do these operations once your book is completed.nce your book is completed.......ed.....
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& "The Pie Menu
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rightButtonDown
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buttonStillDown
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Hotwords work with the leftMouseButton.
The Pie Menu with the rightMouseButton
rightButtonDown
buttonStillDown
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txClassName
GoIndex
stokecolor
0,0,0
Index
GoPrev
stokecolor
0,0,0
Previsss
GoBack
stokecolor
0,0,0
GoNext
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0,0,0
Author
I look forward to hearing from you !
Your suggestions, comments and criticisms are very helpful for me.
They are new energy for everybody's brainstorming to find new interface solutions.
Please, write to:
Paolo Tosolini - via Bembo, 5 - 34105 Muggia (TS) - Italy
[ Callahan J., Hopkins D., Weiser M., Shneiderman B. (1988)
"An empirical comparison of Pie versus Linear Menus", Proceedings of CHI' 88 ]
[ Kurtenbach P.G., Sellen A. J. e Buxton W. A. S. (1992) ," An Empirical Evaluation of some Articulatory and Cognitive Aspects of Marking Menus", to print on Journal HCI January 1993 ]
it to every page of your application.
I suggest anyway to do these operations once your book is completed.
GoNext
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoPrev
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoIndex
PieMenu
0,50,100
GoBack
PieMenu
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PieMenu
Action
PREVIOUS
Action
Action
INDEX
Action
Index
PieMenu
LeavePage
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ClearPie
GoNext
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoPrev
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoIndex
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoBack
PieMenu
0,0,0
ButtonUp
pieMenu
Introduction
Suggestions
Author
Printer Set&up...
&Print Page
Author
I look forward to hearing from you !
Your suggestions, comments and criticisms are very helpful for me.
They are new energy for everybody's brainstorming to find new interface solutions.
Please, write to:
Paolo Tosolini - via Bembo, 5 - 34105 Muggia (TS) - Italy
[ Callahan J., Hopkins D., Weiser M., Shneiderman B. (1988)
"An empirical comparison of Pie versus Linear Menus", Proceedings of CHI' 88 ]
[ Kurtenbach P.G., Sellen A. J. e Buxton W. A. S. (1992) ," An Empirical Evaluation of some Articulatory and Cognitive Aspects of Marking Menus", to print on Journal HCI January 1993 ]
it to every page of your application.
I suggest anyway to do these operations once your book is completed.
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Index
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rightbuttonDown loc
"pieMenu"
Xp-660,Yp-640 -- puts
where
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ckeeping pressed
leftMouseButton
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accelerate refresh
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"GoNext"
"GoPrev"
"GoIndex"
"GoBack"
PREVIOUS
BACK
INDEX
(keyrightButton)
"Up" -- exits
rightMouseButton
released
executed
releasing
Xp=0
-- avoids unexpected
appearance (i.e. doubleClicking on Toolbook icon)
(Xq-Xp) < 150 )
(Yq-Yp) < 150)
centre
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(Yq-Yp)
Xq > Xp
Yq > Yp
LeavePage
ButtonUp
--
Right+Left mousebutton
enterpage
buttonStillDown
rightButtonUp
rightbuttonDown
LeavePage
ClearPie
ButtonUp
enterpage
Action
background
PieMenu
PieMenu
PieMenu
foreground
paste
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rightbuttonDown
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!WClearPie
buttonStillDown
pieMenu
pieMenu
!WClearPie
GoNext
PieMenu
0,50,100
GoPrev
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoIndex
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoBack
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoNext
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoPrev
PieMenu
0,50,100
GoIndex
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoBack
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoNext
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoPrev
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoIndex
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoBack
PieMenu
0,50,100
GoNext
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoPrev
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoIndex
PieMenu
0,50,100
GoBack
PieMenu
0,0,0
rightButtonUp
PieMenu
Action
PREVIOUS
Action
Action
INDEX
Action
Index
PieMenu
LeavePage
pieMenu
pieMenu
ClearPie
GoNext
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoPrev
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoIndex
PieMenu
0,0,0
GoBack
PieMenu
0,0,0
ButtonUp
pieMenu
Index
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This page is called INDEX and could be the summary page of your book
The PieMenu includes the option to go to a page called "Index".
To change this option, you should replace the text "Index" in the
PieMenu field and the <go to page "Index"> script in the
RIGHT buttonUp handler of the background.
The textFields of the PieMenu are called "GoNext, GoPrev, GoBack,
GoIndex". The entire group is called "PieMenu".
To avoid undesired flickering of the commands, the DrawDirect property of the PieMenu components are set to False. For better visual results, in this book there are no DrawnDirect objects.
New improvements for the coming version:
The PieMenu v.2.5 may result useful to navigate in a book in a linear way.
Four choices are not enough to substitute completely a traditional pull down menu.
In my next release I'll try to implement a kind of hierarchy of the commands .
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