issue-#135 adding hierarchical menus

[luowy]

@Josef
it is pity that your code cant work but CpcDropdowm can, with the same menu file,
after replaced "InitSubMenus" with "MakeDropDowns", it do work.
so I think your code has bug.

[Ivan Denisov]

If you want to make new menus order it has sense. I think, that Obx ant Tut can be moved to Help menu.

I realized that my suggestion is bad, because it will break possibility to remove Obx subsystem.

One of the first problem for me is that Linux version also have to support this new issue

[Robert]

Are there any other limitations of CpcDropDown that we could eliminate?

There is a CPC Tool that disables se!ected Menus. It is a useful function, but I think the implementation (it renames files) is primative. Maybe we could incorporate a neater solution into the standard distribution?

[Josef Templ]

Are there any other limitations of CpcDropDown that we could eliminate?

There is a CPC Tool that disables se!ected Menus. It is a useful function, but I think the implementation (it renames files) is primative. Maybe we could incorporate a neater solution into the standard distribution?

This is outside CpcDropDown and beyond this issue, I think.

- Josef

[DGDanforth]

Popup and conditional menus now also support nested menus.

Usage is the same as CpcDropDown.
Here is an example menu text. It shows that "CpcDropDown.DropDown" is not required any longer and that it does not hurt either. It uses a keyboard shortcut Ctrl-G and it uses a guard. The command will only be available if a text document has the focus.

MENU "Test"
"nested" "" "$nested" ""
END

MENU "$nested"
"deeply nested" "" "$nested2" ""
END

MENU "$nested2" ("CpcDropDown.DropDown")
"Hello World" "G" "Dialog.ShowMsg('Hello World')" "StdCmds.PasteViewGuard"
END


- Josef

I don't understand this. If CpcDropDown.DropDown is not needed then why have you included it in the menu type for $nested2?

[Josef Templ]

I don't understand this. If CpcDropDown.DropDown is not needed then why have you included it in the menu type for $nested2?

The intention was to show that the changes of HostMenus work even with
menus that used the CpcDropDown package before. In other words, the
intention was to demonstrate that there are no migration problems of existing menu texts.

- Josef

[Josef Templ]

@Josef
it is pity that your code cant work but CpcDropdowm can, with the same menu file,
after replaced "InitSubMenus" with "MakeDropDowns", it do work.
so I think your code has bug.

Why does it work for me but not for you?

What version of Windows are you using?
What version of HostMenus are you using?
Do you have CpcDropDown installed and configured in addition to the changed HostMenus?
What is the outcome of the test with CpcDropDown installed?
What is the outcome of the test without CpcDropDown installed?

- Josef

[DGDanforth]

@Josef
it is pity that your code cant work but CpcDropdowm can, with the same menu file,
after replaced "InitSubMenus" with "MakeDropDowns", it do work.
so I think your code has bug.

Why does it work for me but not for you?

What version of Windows are you using?
What version of HostMenus are you using?
Do you have CpcDropDown installed and configured in addition to the changed HostMenus?
What is the outcome of the test with CpcDropDown installed?
What is the outcome of the test without CpcDropDown installed?

- Josef

It doesn't work for me either. I removed the qualifier (CpcDropDown.DropDown).
I do not have CpCDropDown working on my machine which is windows XP.
I am running BB build #704.
When I press ^G when the log file has the focus nothing happens.
When I pull down the Test menu (where I put your menus) I get the message

command error: syntax error

Here is the code I am using for your menus

Code: Select all

MENU "Test"
"nested" "" "$nested" ""
END

MENU "$nested"
"deeply nested" "" "$nested2" ""
END

MENU "$nested2"
"Hello World" "G" "Dialog.ShowMsg('Hello World')" "StdCmds.PasteViewGuard"
END

-Doug

[Josef Templ]

Thanks, Doug.
I think I know what it is now.

- Josef

[Josef Templ]

fixed.
The tests had a dependency on the order of menus due to a subtle bug in hotkey handling.
Build http://blackboxframework.org/unstable/i ... a1.706.zip contains the fixes.

- Josef