Having consistent (and therefore predictable) right-click menus is essential for maximizing coding efficiency.
Most structures have the following right-click menu items:
Visible Items
Help
Examples
Description and Tip...
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Add Breakpoint
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Structures Palette
Auto Grow
Exclude from Diagram Cleanup
<specific menu 1>
⋮
<specific menu N>
Replace with <other structure type 1>
⋮
Replace with <other structure type N>
Remove <structure type>
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<other specific menus>
The right-click menu however has some inconsistencies regarding item order and menu separators for certain structure types:
1. "In Place Element Structure" has "Replace" and "Remove" items reversed:
The "Remove" item should always be the last one in the item group (right before the separator) since it is a very common action and the separator offers a quick visual reference point.
2. Depending on whether you click on the structure border, the frame name label or the subdiagram label, sometimes an extra item separator appears for no reason:
The grouping of the generic items shouldn't vary depending on where you click on the structure. Here we sometimes have 4 item groups instead of 3, which hinders quick menu identification and selection.
3. This is more a general remark, but I think items specific to a structure type shouldn't be mixed with the generic ones in the first 3 groups (except maybe for the "Replace" items, since they are related to the "Remove" action).
So any specific menu item should belong after the first 3 groups:
This last remark could be subject to discussion though, as configuring iteration parallelism and shared clone allocation could be considered a "primary" action (therefore requiring to be closest to the top), even if it is specific to certain structure types.
Regards,
Raphaël.
