Hm. I didn't see this one go through, so I'm sending it again. My apologies
if it gets to you twice....
On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:02, Dave Serls wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:06:19 +0100
>
> Bradley T Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dave Serls wrote:
> > > I'm running it now.
> > >
> > > I've only 2 requests, both for menu processing.
> > >
> > > 1: Can the descriptor for the begin statement (only one) cause an
> > > 'ident' string to be optioanlly displayed on the menu? I tend to use
> > > the 'begin' descriptor for that. Is there a reason that an RCS $id
> > > can't be used (other than a given file must be updated when changing
> > > releases)?
> >
> > I don't quite understand this one... what exactly are you wanting to do?
>
[snip]
> I was looking for an external way of identifying which version of
> blackbox is running.
>
> A menu line such as:
>
> [begin] (&version)
> or
> [begin] (blackbox &version)
>
> would display the code version in the main menu title.
>
> Thanks again for some stellar software.
I agree, Brad. =:) Your work is much appreciated and admired with blackbox
and Qt!! =:)
Dave, I think you're talking about something like a "help | about" in other
applications. In other words, in other applications, you can click on a help
menu and choose "about" and it will tell you about the program--what version
it is, who wrote it, etc. I think you can pull this off most easily in
blackbox with the "nop" tag.
Here's a patch that should apply to blackbox 0.70 and CVS that should give you
this in the menu...
You'll need to apply it inside the data directory with this command:
patch -p0 < /path/to/bboxversion.patch
You'll then need to go to the root of the blackbox tree and type "automake -i"
followed by ./configure (or if you've already run ./configure once, just
run ./config.status). Then you can make and make install it.
Secondly... Brad, I'm curious as to why you don't use configure.ac to
generate your menu file (and man pages) from menu.in. =:)
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--- Makefile.am.bak 2005-01-20 08:40:31.826259777 -0500
+++ Makefile.am 2005-01-20 08:39:37.732388467 -0500
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ distclean-local:
menu: menu.in
@regex_cmd@ -e "s,@pkgdatadir@,$(pkgdatadir)," @srcdir@/menu.in > menu
+ @regex_cmd@ -e "s,@version@,$(VERSION)," @srcdir@/menu.in > menu
install-data-local: menu
test -f $(DESTDIR)$(pkgdatadir)/menu || \
--- menu.in.bak 2005-01-20 08:32:12.483451831 -0500
+++ menu.in 2005-01-20 08:39:46.747063057 -0500
@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@
[restart] (Start KWM) {kwm}
[end]
+ [submenu] (Help...) {About Blackbox}
+ [nop] (This is blackbox version: @version@)
+ [end]
+
[exit] (Exit)
[end]
