Choose the desired option; click outside the box to dismiss it.
The Pie Selector
Pie_3
mouseLeave
buttonUp
mouseEnter
rightdoubleclick
buttonrightdown
buttonDown
buttonstilldown
rightbuttonup
buttonDown
AclearSelector
0,100,0
PieType
ChangeType
PieType
leavePage
enterPage
Selector
PieSelector
mouseEnter
PieSelector
SelectorTxt
Pie_3Txt
mouseLeave
PieSelector
SelectorTxt
defaultTxt
buttonUp
rightdoubleclick
buttonrightdown
buttonstilldown
rightbuttonup
Fonts
Pie_2
mouseLeave
buttonUp
mouseEnter
rightdoubleclick
buttonrightdown
buttonDown
buttonstilldown
rightbuttonup
buttonDown
AclearSelector
0,100,0
PieType
ChangeType
PieType
leavePage
enterPage
Selector
PieSelector
mouseEnter
PieSelector
SelectorTxt
Pie_2Txt
mouseLeave
PieSelector
SelectorTxt
defaultTxt
buttonUp
rightdoubleclick
buttonrightdown
buttonstilldown
rightbuttonup
Pie_1
mouseLeave
buttonUp
mouseEnter
rightdoubleclick
buttonrightdown
buttonDown
buttonstilldown
rightbuttonup
buttonDown
AclearSelector
0,100,0
PieType
ChangeType
PieType
leavePage
enterPage
Selector
PieSelector
mouseEnter
PieSelector
SelectorTxt
Pie_1Txt
mouseLeave
PieSelector
SelectorTxt
defaultTxt
buttonUp
rightdoubleclick
buttonrightdown
buttonstilldown
rightbuttonup
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Pie Type :
Action : :
Page name :
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Introduction
by Paolo Tosolini, Italy - July 1993
A bdridge towards Pen
Windows Applications
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ClearOpenButtons
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What,How,News,Who
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What ?
How ?
News ?
Who ?
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WHAT IS THE PIE MENU ?
The Pie Menu is a non linear menu that belongs to the marking menus category.
It appears on request of the user wherever he wants on the screen, letting available 4 choices at time.
The purpose of the Pie Menu is to propose a new way of navigation in hypertext spaces or inputting commands with the possibility to show on the screen no permanent buttons (like Go To Next Page), that is leaving on the screen only the real necessary information.
This book will explain how the Pie Menu has been implemented as navigation, text and fonts tool, with no need of pull down menus to select the different functions.
HowTxt
HOW TO USE THE PIE MENU ?
To invoke the Pie Menu use (single click) the Right mouse button.
Just keep it pressed wherever the pointer of the mouse is, and the Pie Menu will appear. Move the pointer in the direction of the command you want to execute and then release the button.
You have an immediate feedback of the action you are going to do, because the command name changes to red color.
To do no actions after having invoked the Pie Menu, just release the button again in its centre.
To act in an invisible way, you have to remember the position of the commands. Press the Right mouse button, move to one direction and release it in less than one second...
WhoTxt
WHO DEVELOPED THIS PROTOTYPE ?
This is the third release of the Toolbook Pie Menu prototype.
You can freely adopt this idea and scripts in your own applications.
To know more on the Pie Menu check the references on page 3 of this book.
I welcome any suggestion or comment regarding this work and the Human Computer Interaction field:
Paolo Tosolini
via Bembo, 5
34015 Muggia (TS) - Italy
tel. +39-40-275030 - fax. +39-40-311850
email: tosolini@psicosun.univ.trieste.itain in its center.
To act in an invisible way, you have to remember the position of the commands. Press the Right mouse button, move to one direction and release it in less than one second.
NewsTxt
WHAT IS NEW WITH THE PIE MENU v. 3.0 ?
This release allows the user to choose different Pie Menus for different purposes. This is possible through the Pie Selector panel, Double clicking everywhere with the Right mouse button.
This prototype demonstrates how you can choose from three different Pie Menu types: to navigate, to manage text and to change fonts attributes.
Select the desired option using the Left mouse button.
To help the user understand the available functions on the single Pie Menu, an explanatory text is shown when you pass with the mouse pointer on the Pie Selector buttons.
Go to page 2 for a complete test of the Pie Menu commands.
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A bridge towards Pen Windows Applicationsssssse towards Pen
Windows Applications
NewsTxt
WHAT IS NEW WITH THE PIE MENU v. 3.0 ?
This release allows the user to choose different Pie Menus for different purposes. This is possible through the Pie Selector panel, Double clicking everywhere with the Right mouse button.
This prototype demonstrates how you can choose from three different Pie Menu types: to navigate, to manage text and to change fonts attributes.
Select the desired option using the Left mouse button.
To help the user understand the available functions on the single Pie Menu, an explanatory text is shown when you pass with the mouse pointer on the Pie Selector buttons.
Go to page 2 for a complete test of the Pie Menu commands.
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A bridge towards Pen Windows Applicationsssssse towards Pen
Windows Applications
Your Test
urself
MyText
If you are reading this page, it means that you used the Pie Menu in
Navigate mode correctly.
The Scripts of this field (called MyText as default) are not activated, in order to allow you to test this prototype in deep.
Now invoke the Pie Selector and choose the Text mode.
If you want to see how many hotwords are contained in this text, just
select the Show Hotword command of the Pie Menu, that is pressing the
Right mouse button, moving the pointer to the Left and then release it.
Of course, hotwords do not work when the scripts of the field are not active.
Now try to scroll Up and Down this text using still the Pie Menu in Text mode. I configured the scrolling rate by 5 lines.
If you want to act with fonts, just select the Fonts mode in the Pie Selector.
The current page name, Pie Menu action and Pie Selector mode are
always shown in the bottom of the page.
You can select a word or sentence and transform to bold with just a gesture, that is clicking and moving the pointer to Left.
To change to Courier font, try the Down direction.
Much more surprising is using the Pie Menu without making it appearing.
Do your action in less than one second.
Things change through gestures. No more visible buttons to input usual commands.
I tested this release of the Pie Menu with Pen Windows operating system, too. The feeling represents a further step in the direction of a better user interface.
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The Pie Menu v. 3.00
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TEST BY YOURSELF
Feel free to test the different functions offered by the Pie Selector with this text :
References
References
The Pie Menu v. 3.00
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WHO RESEARCHED THE PIE MENU
MyText
References
[ Callahan J., Hopkins D., Weiser M., Shneiderman B. (1988),
"An empirical comparison of Pie versus Linear Menus ",