Add sub-menu support for scripts

[waqu]

Add the ability to create sub-menus in scripts.

[bdeshi]

you could use popupmenu()

[FluxTorpedoe]

Hi’

And if you have more complex needs for dynamic menus or submenus,   load $YourMenu, , "s"   and   heredoc syntax   also come in handy, e.g.:

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"Regular Entry"
	msg 0;

"Submenu Entry<tab>>"
// ------------------>
  $Menu = <<<#>>>

"Submenu First Entry"
	msg 1;
"Submenu Second Entry"
	msg 2;

#>>>;
	load $Menu, , "s";
// ------------------<

Have a nice day,
Flux

[highend]

+99!

Thanks @SammaySarkar & FluxTorpedoe!

But... A native way for real menu structures would be greatly preferred...

- If you switch to a submenu, the whole main menu is gone (hard to grasp what else you could have clicked, even more so for larger menus)
- While it's possible to get the main menu back you can't do it without adding another "..\" entry for each submenu (or however you'd name it)

[admin]

Got an idea for how to do this. Planned for 17.20...

[highend]

[highend]

@Flux

Can you create multiple nested submenus with your method?

Like:

Root menu entry 1
Sub menu 1
....Entry a
....Entry b
....Sub menu 2
........Entry c
Root menu entry 2

[FluxTorpedoe]

Can you create multiple nested submenus with your method?

Wicked…

Never needed it before, but here it is, an example with sub-sub-menu and embedded warnings:
 — Variables must be quoted when used (else they are resolved prematurely)
 — Even XY vars, especially <crlf> (which breaks heredoc menus)

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"Main Menu A1"
	msg "Main Menu A1";


// --------------------------->
"Main Menu A2<tab>>"
	$var = "foo;bar";
  $Menu = <<<#>>>
"Submenu B1"
  msg "Submenu B1";


// ------------------>
"Submenu B2<tab>>"
  $SubMenu = <<<#)))
"SubSubmenu C1   [Regular]"
	msg "C1";
"SubSubmenu C2   [Vars not quoted => risk of error]"
  msg $var;
"SubSubmenu C3   [All vars quoted => OK]"
  msg "$var";
"SubSubmenu C4   [Even CRLF => use chr(13)]"
  msg "First line".chr(13)."Second Line";
#)));
   load $SubMenu, , "s";
// ------------------<


#>>>;
   load $Menu, , "s";
// ---------------------------<

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Got an idea for how to do this. Planned for 17.20...

Cool news!

Have a nice day,
Flux

[highend]

Cool Flux and thanks a lot for providing the example! Now the only thing I have to do is build a clever parser

Now the only thing I have to do is build a clever parser

Done

[highend]

Works nicely (these are generated by UMC...)
Clicking on files / folders lead to a different menu...

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[klownboy]

Hey highend, how's it going? I see you must be still tweaking UMC. I'm still using it daily. When are we, or maybe for now I should say I, going to see another update.

It would be nice though if Don could give us fly-out sub-menus on mouse hovering where the original menus stayed visible.

[highend]

Hi Ken. Everything's fine here. Didn't had much time for UMC in the past. But I've added a few features recently (one of them is obviously nested submenus) and menus got a "match" property as well so that rebuilding XY's tree and list menus became possible. Unfortunately not all menu entries have an internal XY ID so I need to add scripts to recreate the same functionality

[admin]

Got an idea for how to do this. Planned for 17.20...

Next beta supports multiple nested submenus with SC popupmenu()...

[highend]

While you're (already) on it, can you add icon support for popupmenu() as well? Too many people like those shiny little (distracting) thingies...

[admin]

You mean toolbar icons?