[invokers - interest] What to do with manual popovers on lose interest

[brechtDR]

#872 gave rise to the potential benefit of a loseinterest option again.

If we would have a manual popover that also gets triggered with interest. What happens when we lose focus? Does it close.

For the moment there isn't something to define this such as a loseinterestaction. Having a loseinterestaction might be too overloaded, but we should at least discuss the possibility, or how we would handle such use-cases.

[lukewarlow]

I wonder if rather than having a second attribute we can allow the attribute to be two space separated values? First for gain action second for lose action?

Idk if there's precedence for that sort of thing?

[lukewarlow]

Thinking on this some more I think a manual popover should behave just like a hint or auto wrt the interest behaviour. Just like invokers can open and close a manual popover, interest invokers should do the same.

The difference being that a manual popover doesn't close other popovers and doesn't have light dismiss.

[brechtDR]

The difference being that a manual popover doesn't close other popovers and doesn't have light dismiss.

Interesting point of view. I'm just wondering if "losing focus" should be considered a "light dismiss" in this story? Because in that case, it does have some sort of light dismiss behavior when manual and interest combined with losing focus. If that makes sense.... I might be overthinking it.

[lukewarlow]

I get what you mean. "spec" wise light dismiss is explicitly click outside, so they're missing a close watcher AND light dismiss. But invokers are effectively the same as the imperative JS APIs, which always work.