So I have this graph, or a control in a cluster, or an element of an array. I right-click on it... nope, got the contextual menu for an interior element. Try again... nope, again. I'm supposed to click in that fringe that sometimes I can get it no trouble and sometimes it seems like it's a quarter of a pixel wide. And I'm sound of eye and hand. I wouldn't want to see what this would be like for someone who's stiff or has even mild eyesight problems.
What would solve half of this problem is a contextual menu item that expands into the entire context menu for the parent. So if you right-click on one control in the cluster, it just takes a moment to get that one layer out to the whole cluster.
What would solve the rest would be if one of the elements in this menu (perhaps in all context menus) was 'select this'. In this case, that object would be selected (with shift down, added to selection), marching-ants style. Then we could move, copy, delete, etc.
I'd apply this to anything else, like labels or captions, that are part of another thing.
It would be nice but not necessary if we could get the 'marching ants' effect going around the parent while you're in the parent's submenu, as a navigational aid.
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