Tutorial: Circular Floating Menu that can be shown by long right-click or gesture

[StanN]

@Andreas_Hegenberg

I just experimented with submenus, which seems to work pretty well by placing another, larger, floating menu above the first one. Not sure whether that could be useful but I'll post instructions on how to achieve that soon.

Hey Andreas, did you manage to post the instructions mentioned here? If so, where can I find them?

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

I posted an example here:

Tutorial / Preset: Nice Mouse Menu with Submenu

This is wonderful! Also thanks for sharing the video. Helpful to see how sometimes presets are made. I've stayed away from floating menus so far because it seemed like a rabbit hole the first time I checked and it's really tempting to overdo things often. I'm often confused now what might be the best way to trigger something — a hotkey, mouse gesture, key sequence, newly added Stream deck, etc. Choice is good though hope I can figure out a system soon. Btw one tip regarding the icons — I often …

[StanN]

do you by any chance also have a circular (sub)menu template lying around like in the posted vid.

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

I quickly made a VERY basic one:

circular-sub.bttpreset (103.4 KB)

Basically the trick is to place a larger floating menu over a smaller one by using the positioning options:

[StanN]

Perfect!

[Pal]

Back in the days of Logitech Mouseware, you could create a radial (but square) popup menu, with eight configurable icons. I can't find any picture of it, but I did find a picture of the successor Logitech SetPoint, with the option "Windows: Show custom menu". I'm not sure if that is what I'm looking for though, or if that was a normal context menu (with custom items).

Anyway, I had it on middle-click, and it looked something like this:

App menu	Maximize	Close
Alt+Tab		On top
Start menu	Minimize	Desktop

I clicked and held the middle button, and moved my trackball in the direction I wanted. The pointer couldn't leave the popup menu, so I didn't have to care about hitting the icon, only about the direction. The action was executed on mouse button release. If I wanted to cancel, I released it on the middle icon.

It made it super fast. Even faster than keyboard shortcuts.

Would it be possible to adapt this radial menu to something like that?

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

locking the mouse cursor into the menu should be easy, I'll check

or maybe an option like "trigger last hovered item" on menu close

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

5.609 adds an option "Keep Last Hovered Menu Item Selected When Mouse Leaves Menu Area"

If you enable this for the circular example menu it will behave like this: