Sticky context menu

[Daklu]

Labview implements lots of functionality in the right click menu, resulting in large and deep menu hierarchies.  Often I want to select multiple items, but the context menu disappears after a single selection requiring me to go back to the original item and renavigate the menu tree.  That's a lot of repetitive, fairly precise mousing.

I'd like to have a hot key that prevents the context menu from disappearing after I select an item.  For example, if I held down the Ctl key while deselecting "Label," I could immediately move down to "Caption" and select it, making the whole process much easier.

[RoyA]

How about if the menu stays open until a SECOND right-click.  So, right-click to open, change as many items as you want, right-click in EMPTY area of menu (or off of menu) to close.

[jtagg]

Waiting for a second right-click is then tedious for one-change access to the menu. We could try something more like this:

- right-click to open menu

- left-click on menu item does the usual, that is executes and closes menu

- right-click on menu item executes, but does not close the menu

This way nothing changes for simple case, but for those who want, there is the possibility. I don't know if this is better than using the ctrl key for example but it's important to not make the normal case more difficult to help the edge case.

[Daklu]

jtagg, I think that's a great way to implement the functionality.

[Darren]

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