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Originally Posted by Jim Chapman
Yep. The Freda context menu popup for selected text is broadly similar - see below:
And you can see the problem - with a Window having the minimum allowed width, the screen is too narrow to display another menu option for 'note'. This is not impossible to deal with, but it does mean that adding an extra item is not trivial. |
Understood Jim. I know (from firsthand), devs always hate it when people say stuff like: Oh, that should be TRIVIAL to add.
One way I've seen of handling this problem effectively (too many UI buttons on the popup menu), is the way Logos Bible software does it in their Android app. They have twice as many options on that popup menu as any app I've seen.
What they do is actually make it so you can scroll right on the popup menu for more options. They put what they believe are the most popular options so that they are always immediately visible. Kindle basically does similar.
Note: my model for doing this is definitely the Logos app. If you have an android or apple mobile device handy, you can install their app for free, for example
here. It should be possible to load a free book or two on there if they don't already have one, although be aware, they have their own specialized book format because they morphologically tag every word, so it has to be one of their books, they don't take epubs or mobis, I believe. If you highlight some text on a small screen, you'll see that popup menu that scrolls right to see all their various selections.
I don't know how hard that would be to implement in Freda+. But IMHO, something like that would be the way to get 'direct' access to a note and other buttons on that popup menu.