Talk:Popup menu

User:Antonielly claimed "Java Swing has the same nomenclature usage of Microsoft Windows in this case" in an edit[1] comment. However, the Swing concept of the popup menu is a broader and more inclusive one than the MS Windows usage. The Java documentation defines a "popup menu" as

...a small window that pops up and displays a series of choices. A JPopupMenu is used for the menu that appears when the user selects an item on the menu bar. It is also used for "pull-right" menu that appears when the selects[sic] a menu item that activates it. Finally, a JPopupMenu can also be used anywhere else you want a menu to appear. For example, when the user right-clicks in a specified area." [2]

Only the last of the three examples matches the MS Windows usage:

Pop-up menus (also known as shortcut menus) display frequently-used commands with a right mouse click. They can be context sensitive to the location of the pointer.[3]

The broader Swing concept correlates with the GUI concept described in Menu (computing) whereas the Microsoft usage correlates with Context menu. Exia (talk) 16:39, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I do not object to your comments. But performing a complete (rather than partial) revert of my previous edit was unfortunate because it contained various good changes (not just that bad one): I added two important categories, fixed wikilinks, etc. Those are changes that, you would certainly agree, were proper.

It would have been better for the article if you had fixed the bad part of my edit, instead of throwing it alway altogether (especially considering that most of it was correct, and just one detail was allegedly faulty). See Help:Reverting#Don.27ts, item 4.

I'll revert back to my edit and then fix the detail you pointed out, but please avoid reverting edits that are mostly good, and revert only those that are mostly bad. As a rule of thumb: if an edit is at least 75% good, fix it, not revert it.

I made the same mistake of reverting "almost correct" edits in the past, so don't worry, we all make well-intentioned mistakes sometimes. Anyway, thanks for point out the faulty part of my edit and for contributing to our collective effort. --Antonielly (talk) 20:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. I was only looking at the rendered and the edit comment, and didn't think to check the Wiki markup, so I didn't notice the link changes. I did preserve your category additions. Exia (talk) 14:48, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]