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Context Menu Mac Informer. Microsoft office 19 for mac. Featured Context Menu free downloads and reviews. Latest updates on everything Context Menu Software related. Show and hide services 1. Click on the Apple menu and open the System Preferences application. You can also open it from /Applications/System. Open the Keyboard preference pane. Click the Shortcuts tab. Select Services from the menu pane on the left-hand side. This will reveal a list. Contextual menus, including any menu you pop up with popUpContextMenu:withEvent:forView:, automatically insert menu items from any contextual menu plug-ins that the user has installed into the menu.A contextual menu plug-in, which is CFPlugIn bundle installed in a Library/Contextual Menu Items directory at the appropriate level of the system, enables applications and other forms of software to.

Context menus in Windows 10 are customizable by third-party software.
Finder context menu in macOS
GNOME context menu

A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-upmenu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating system or application to which the menu belongs. Usually the available choices are actions related to the selected object. From a technical point of view, such a context menu is a graphical control element.

History[edit]

Context menus first appeared in the Smalltalk environment on the Xerox Alto computer, where they were called pop-up menus; they were invented by Dan Ingalls in the mid-1970s.[1][2]

Microsoft Office v3.0 introduced the context menu for copy and paste functionality in 1990. Borland demonstrated extensive use of the context menu in 1991 at the Second Paradox Conference in Phoenix Arizona. Lotus 1-2-3/G for OS/2 v1.0 added additional formatting options in 1991. Borland Quattro Pro for Windows v1.0 introduced the Properties context menu option in 1992.

Implementation[edit]

Context menus are opened via various forms of user interaction that target a region of the GUI that supports context menus. The specific form of user interaction and the means by which a region is targeted vary:

  • On a computer running Microsoft Windows, macOS, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button (usually the right button) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.
  • On systems that support one-button mice, context menus are typically opened by pressing and holding the primary mouse button (this works on the icons in the Dock on macOS) or by pressing a keyboard/mouse button combination (e.g. Ctrl-mouse click in Classic Mac OS and macOS). A keyboard alternative for macOS is to enable Mouse keys in Universal Access. Then, depending on whether a laptop or compact or extended keyboard type is used, the shortcut is Function+Ctrl+5 or Ctrl+5 (numeric keypad) or Function+Ctrl+i (laptop).
  • On systems with a multi-touch interface such as MacBook or Surface, the context menu can be opened by pressing or tapping with two fingers instead of just one.
Pop-up after the phone camera recognizes a QR code
  • Some cameras on smartphones for example recognize a QR code when a picture is taken. Then a pop-up appears if you want to 'open' the QR content. This could be anything like a website or to configure your phone to connect to Wi-Fi. See image.

Windows mouse click behavior is such that the context menu doesn't open while the mouse button is pressed, but only opens the menu when the button is released, so the user has to click again (this time with the first mouse button) to select a context menu item. This behavior differs from that of macOS and most free software GUIs.

  • In Microsoft Windows, pressing the Application key or Shift+F10 opens a context menu for the region that has focus.

Context menus are sometimes hierarchically organized, allowing navigation through different levels of the menu structure. The implementations differ: Microsoft Word was one of the first applications to only show sub-entries of some menu entries after clicking an arrow icon on the context menu, otherwise executing an action associated with the parent entry. This makes it possible to quickly repeat an action with the parameters of the previous execution, and to better separate options from actions.

X Window Managers[edit]

The following window managers provide context menu functionality:

  • IceWM—middle-click and right-click context menus on desktop, menubar. titlebars, and titleicon

Usability[edit]

Context menus have received some criticism from usability analysts when improperly used, as some applications make certain features only available in context menus, which may confuse even experienced users (especially when the context menus can only be activated in a limited area of the application's client window).

Context menus usually open in a fixed position under the pointer, but when the pointer is near a screen edge the menu will be displaced - thus reducing consistency and impeding use of muscle memory. If the context menu is being triggered by keyboard, such as by using Shift + F10, the context menu appears near the focused widget instead of the position of the pointer, to save recognition efforts.

In documentation[edit]

Microsoft's guidelines call for always using the term context menu, and explicitly deprecate shortcut menu.[3]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^R. Keith Sawyer (2012). Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation. USA: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^Peter Seibel (September 16, 2009). Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming. Apress.
  3. ^'Menus'. Windows desktop applications - Guidelines. Microsoft. 2011.

External links[edit]

Look up context menu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Contextual Menus

A contextual menu, or shortcut menu, gives people access to frequently used commands related to the current context. A contextual menu is revealed by Control-clicking a view or selected element in an app. For example, Control-clicking selected text in TextEdit displays a contextual menu containing text-specific menu items for initiating actions like changing the font and checking spelling.

Always follow menu design best practices. In general, all menus and menu items should be consistently arranged and titled. See Menu Anatomy.

Include only the most commonly used commands that are appropriate in the current context. For example, in the contextual menu for selected text, it makes sense to include editing commands but it doesn't make sense to include a Save or Print command.

Limit the hierarchical depth of contextual menus to one or two levels. Submenus in contextual menus can be difficult to navigate without accidentally dismissing the contextual menu. If you must include submenus, restrict them to a single level.

Don't set a default item in a contextual menu. If the user opens the menu and closes it without selecting anything, no action should occur.

Always make contextual menu items available in the menu bar too. A contextual menu is hidden by default and a user might not know it exists, so it should never be the only way to access a command. In particular, avoid using a contextual menu as the only way to access an advanced feature. See Menu Bar Menus.

Show keyboard shortcuts in menu bar menus, not contextual menus. Contextual menus are already shortcuts to task-specific commands; it's redundant to display keyboard shortcuts too.

Use an Action pop-up button to elevate contextual menu functionality. You can use an Action pop-up button to provide app-wide contextual menu functionality in a toolbar. For example, people can use the Action pop-up menu in the Finder toolbar to access the same commands found in a selected item's contextual menu. See Action Pop-Up Buttons.

Contextual Menu Access

For developer guidance, see Application Menu and Pop-up List Programming Topics.





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