[CLOSED] Cannot select context menu item with down/up arrow after bring it up with context menu button.

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Issue by RaymondLim
Friday Jun 22, 2012 at 17:14 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#1115

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1. Press context menu button in a document window.
2. Press down arrow key.

Result: nothing is selected in context menu.

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Comment by peterflynn
Friday Jun 22, 2012 at 17:25 GMT

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The main menus work this way too. I think this requires the 'focus management' story in order to be implemented properly, so tagging 'to backlog.'

Note: it doesn't work on Mac either, but on Mac menus aren't expected to respond to the keyboard -- hence the 'Win only' tag.

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Comment by peterflynn
Friday Jun 22, 2012 at 17:42 GMT

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Raymond pointed out that this is especially nasty with context menus when using the context menu keyboard shortcut on Win -- you can't use the menu without a mouse, so the value of using a shortcut is much reduced. (Although I'd argue that not having mnemonics also greatly reduces the value of the menu shortcut key).

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Comment by pthiess
Friday Jun 22, 2012 at 18:03 GMT

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Reviewed - move to backlog

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Comment by pthiess
Friday Jun 22, 2012 at 18:04 GMT

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#542

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Comment by peterflynn
Friday Jun 22, 2012 at 18:16 GMT

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Story #542 is about native main menus (excluding context menus), so it wouldn't fully address this issue. I added this to the focus management story, though (#404)

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Comment by pthiess
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012 at 23:53 GMT

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Closing since it is in the backlog - 404