Menu interactions

[Risto Kivilahti <rkivilah movial fi>]

Hi,

A lot of menus interactions are based on movement events.  This is 
truely problematic immediatelly when one uses a touchscreen. (Clicks 
without movement)
And it's really easy and very common to make clicks without movement.

Touchscreen example:
When one clicks a menuitem, it does not activate it, instead it moves 
the cursor on the item.

Normaly one moves the cursor on the item first. The item gets the focus 
(and movement handlers will be run) and clicking will work fine.  This 
is really a problem with touchscreens, because you have to click and 
move if you want to activate something.

Any suggestions how the situation should be handled?


Risto

(Because these two input devices are pretty much different, it may be 
impossible to make a solution which is good for both devices.. ?)