[Solved] How can i create a submenu in user button?

[stanmarsh]

hello xyplorer community!

i want to have a submenu (1-level) in the user button, similar to this app http://www.horstmuc.de/wpop.htm.

i'm using the user button as an app launcher, move all the apps links to an xys script following xman format, http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7446

can this be made using script?

TIA

[serendipity]

hello xyplorer community!

i want to have a submenu (1-level) in the user button, similar to this app http://www.horstmuc.de/wpop.htm.

i'm using the user button as an app launcher, move all the apps links to an xys script following xman format, http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7446

can this be made using script?

TIA

Ofcourse, something like this:

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"Item1"
  msg "Hi";
"Item2"
  text "Hi"
"Item3"
  echo "<curpath>";

[stanmarsh]

thanks serendipity for the help,

i'm not getting a submenu with the example though,

i like to have something like the one with arrows

only when i hover over the menu, the items inside the menu will be shown

TIA

[admin]

Not supported.

[binocular222]

Autohotkey community tried to mimic exactly the same Popsel here
http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/5 ... by-popsel/

And I also improved the above script further here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/8 ... ntry544910
So, things look like this:

[stanmarsh]

@admin

thanks Donald for the help!

@binocular222

awesome work binocular222! will check out autohotkey!


Thanks xyplorer community!

[FluxTorpedoe]

About the dropdown "on mouseover": this feature may not seem like much, but I think the practical gain would be much greater than can be foreseen... It would "open up" the power of scripted menus!
So it should probably deserve a place (even farrrrrraway) on the roadmap.

Well, it's been a year that I've been dreaming of a fluid StartMenu button right in XY (pointing to portable apps).
(I've even already written the pointer in my PowerLauncher script )

[serendipity]

It would "open up" the power of scripted menus!

Completely agree, would love to have this if its technically possible.
+1 for multi-level menus.

[serendipity]

thanks serendipity for the help,

i'm not getting a submenu with the example though

I know this is not what you want, but how exactly did you try to run that script?
I tested that script before posting here.

[admin]

It would "open up" the power of scripted menus!

Completely agree, would love to have this if its technically possible.
+1 for multi-level menus.

Technically possible ... that is the question; I doubt it. I know droppable menus only from Firefox (and they are owner-drawn AFAIK), I don't think the Windows menu supports it, or does it?

[Filehero]

I know droppable menus only from Firefox (and they are owner-drawn AFAIK), I don't think the Windows menu supports it, or does it?

You mean this kind of menus XY itself provides? Confused.

[serendipity]

I know droppable menus only from Firefox (and they are owner-drawn AFAIK), I don't think the Windows menu supports it, or does it?

You mean this kind of menus XY itself provides? Confused.

Exactly my point, XY already has these menus, I thought you made them yourself? Maybe I am wrong.

[admin]

Dropping ON menus is something I have only seen in Firefox. The menus you see in XY are created using Windows API and I don't think they will support dropping. AFAIK they won't even open as long as a mouse button is down.

[FluxTorpedoe]

I don't know about other's need, but I wasn't talking about dropping items on a menu, but about submenus dropping (i.e. displayed) when the mouse goes over a line with the black triangle > .
Like e.g. the standard Menu: View > Views > Details
Right now in scripting, the actions (popupmenu or loading other scripted menus) are only activated "onclick" and not "onmouseover".
So we have something like:
"Reports >"
load "Menu_Report.xys";

Thinking aloud:
Prefixing an entry with the ">" sign could tell XY to run it onmouseover (of course that could mean trouble with bad/tricky code, but that's always the case).
>"Reports "
load "Menu_Report.xys";

[binocular222]

I don't think I will drop anything on a menu (as I already had droppable user button).
Perhaps, I may need a .xys script which can create a multi-level menu (see my previous post with screen shot - I guess that it's easy to implement)