Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist

Tear-off Activation

 

n/a 

 

 

 

Required 

5-11: 

Activating a tear-off button tears off the menu that contains the button.  

A tear-off button is like a push button with the special interaction of tearing off the menu from its cascading button. Tear-off buttons use the same basic activation as other buttons. 

Required 

5-12: 

When a menu with a tear-off button is posted, pressing BTransfer in the tear-off button starts a tear-off action. As long as BTransfer is held, a representation of the menu follows the movement of the pointer. Releasing BTransfer ends the tear-off action by unposting the menu system, creating a new window at the current pointer location that contains the contents of the menu, and giving focus to the new window in explicit pointer mode.