Set Selection Context Menu - Tags and Though Type (#5001)

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34 posts smieg 34 posts

smieg 1535199575 in TheBrain 10 Desktop Beta

First, congratulations on releasing TheBrain 10 Alpha! TheBrain is critical to my information based workflows and I am always excited to take advantage of new features.

I do have 2 suggestions related to the Set Selection Context Menu.

Could the Though Type menu be wider. I have a complex hierarchy of Thought Types and they are currently being truncated.

Also, would it be possible to be able to enable or disable multiple Tags on the Tags menu? Currently, it gets dismissed after making one change.

Thanks,
Andy

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shatcher Moderator 311 posts

shatcher 1535412878

Hi Andy,

To make more than one change to the Tags, click the active Thought and open the properties. There you can un/check more than one Tag at a time. The context menu (when you right-click) is a native menu, and does not have a way to stay open for multiple selections.

The Types dialog in the Thought Properties should automatically adjust when there are multiple levels of Types. Does this option allow you to see the full name?

Cheers, Sean

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Harlan Moderator 5,656 posts

Harlan 1535426158

As Sean said, multiple selections via the native menu is probably a no-go.

As for the width adjusting, I see the problem you are referring to in Windows. This will be fixed soon.

Regards,
-Harlan

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metta 1,390 posts

metta 1535441636 · Edited

Another context menu feature request for tags and thought types:
> Currently each list of tags and thought types is centered in the context menu.
> Unfortunately, this center display obfuscates the nested relationships in each list. (Compare with the flush left lists of tags and thought types on the menu bar.)

In light of this, would it be possible to make the context menus for tags and thought types display flush left as well, so the nested relationships can be more easily recognized?

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Harlan Moderator 5,656 posts

Harlan 1535452705

They are not supposed to be centered, they are indented to show hierarchy on both Windows and macOS. Please post a screenshot of what you are seeing. Thanks.

Regards,
-Harlan

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smieg 34 posts

smieg 1535466168

Thanks Sean and Harlan. I understand the interface better now and will wait for the the menu width fix in a future version.

Andy

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metta 1,390 posts

metta 1535551972

@Harlan ~

Attached are screenshots of the centered display of the type and tag lists in the context menu from one of my test brains (v10.0.6).

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Click image for larger version - Name: ContextMenu_Tags.png, Views: 58, Size: 142.73 KB

Click image for larger version - Name: ContextMenu_Types.png, Views: 56, Size: 168.63 KB

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mcaton Moderator 3,991 posts

mcaton 1535562154

The new 10.0.6 build has the context menu fix for Thought Types and Tags. Please update and let us know what you think. Also, Metta, are your Types/Tags still centered in this build?

Thank you,
Matt

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smieg 34 posts

smieg 1535564425

Hi Matt,

It works great! Any chance the same could be done the Type list that shows up when changing Type using the Thought properties window?

Thanks,
Andy

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Harlan Moderator 5,656 posts

Harlan 1535574206

Glad it is working for you Andy.

Metta, unfortunately, the way it is displaying for you is due to Windows 7.

It should look more like this: (macOS in my case, but similar on Windows 10)

Screen Shot 2018-08-29 at 1.21.12 PM.png

Regards,
-Harlan

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pshanks 274 posts

pshanks 1535579730

Look great in Windows 10. Great work TheBrain team!

TheBrain (Beta 10.0.14.0) 9.1.16.0, iOS V9.1.2, TheBrain 8.0.2.2
Windows 10 (V1803), Windows 7 SP1, OS X V10.13.5
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metta 1,390 posts

metta 1535592461 · Edited

Yes, Matt -- Still centered in 10.0.6 on Win7.

Thanks for the update and screenshots, Harlan and Pat. Good to know Win10 will (eventually) fix this bug.

In the meantime, thanks so much for adding the visual enhancements to these 2 lists. It is a huge time saver when assigning types and tags from the context menu!

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mcaton Moderator 3,991 posts

mcaton 1535650950

Thanks Metta!

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Harlan Moderator 5,656 posts

Harlan 1538181325

Metta, this should have been fixed in 10.0.11.

Regards,
-Harlan

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metta 1,390 posts

metta 1538930605

Thanks so much, Harlan! Just now confirmed the fix in 10.0.14.

Looks really great, and I appreciate TB team's attention to this helpful visual detail.