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3 months ago
CIQQA-3097

Vivoactive6 simulator: menu key not working

In the simulator for the new Vivoactive6, the menu key (m) is not working.

Also the image only shows a black and white scheme of the watch, but maybe that's intended?

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  • 3 months ago

    TL;DR yes it looks like onMenu is not supported for vivoactive6, and the "new" way of implementing context-sensitive menus is solely via action menus (and the only way to open an action menu on VA6 is to swipe the on-screen action menu indicator).

    I think Garmin has been going in this direction for a long time, and getting rid of the standard menu button gesture is the logical end result.

    Something like this is better than the situation with spotify (or any other music provider) on 5-button watches, where there's literally two different menus available at the music player screen: one of them is opened by short-pressing UP (or tapping on the corresponding button hint) and the other is opened by long-pressing UP.

    Or how about the situation with native activities on 5-button watches? On the activity start page (before the timer is started), short pressing UP gives you a "short" menu with *only* activity-related items. But long pressing UP gives you a "long" menu with the activity-related items followed by general watch settings. And in this "long" menu, there are two "Navigation" items (the first one is related to initiating navigation for the activity, while the second one is general navigation settings).

    Hopefully Garmin continues to simplify things (although 5-button "touch-optional" watches will always be more confusing than "touch-first" watches, since there always needs to be a way to do the essential functions only using the buttons.)

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  • 3 months ago

    TL;DR yes it looks like onMenu is not supported for vivoactive6, and the "new" way of implementing context-sensitive menus is solely via action menus (and the only way to open an action menu on VA6 is to swipe the on-screen action menu indicator).

    I think Garmin has been going in this direction for a long time, and getting rid of the standard menu button gesture is the logical end result.

    Something like this is better than the situation with spotify (or any other music provider) on 5-button watches, where there's literally two different menus available at the music player screen: one of them is opened by short-pressing UP (or tapping on the corresponding button hint) and the other is opened by long-pressing UP.

    Or how about the situation with native activities on 5-button watches? On the activity start page (before the timer is started), short pressing UP gives you a "short" menu with *only* activity-related items. But long pressing UP gives you a "long" menu with the activity-related items followed by general watch settings. And in this "long" menu, there are two "Navigation" items (the first one is related to initiating navigation for the activity, while the second one is general navigation settings).

    Hopefully Garmin continues to simplify things (although 5-button "touch-optional" watches will always be more confusing than "touch-first" watches, since there always needs to be a way to do the essential functions only using the buttons.)

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