> Hrm. Yeah, that would get ugly real quick. Would doing something like > what follows be interesting? > > NewAddToMenu "AppMenu" > + Style SidePixmap "ninja.xpm" > + Style SideColor gray > + Item "Application Menu" Title > + Item "" Nop > + Item "Corporate Time" Exec /usr/local/bin/ctime > + Property Greyed > + Property Hotkey T > > And maybe allow for S for style, I for item, P for property, etc?
Alternatively, swap Style for MenuStyle, Property for ItemStyle: NewAddToMenu "AppMenu" + MenuStyle SidePixmap "ninja.xpm" + MenuStyle SideColor gray + Item "Application Menu" Title + Item "" Nop + Item "Corporate Time" Exec /usr/local/bin/ctime + ItemStyle Greyed + ItemStyle Hotkey T Effectively making them "short aliases" for a full blown MenuStyle and ItemStyle command. Who knows, some folk might actually -want- to specify an ItemStyle in the format of: ItemStyle <menu> <item> <options> ItemStyle "AppMenu" "Corporate Time" Greyed, Hotkey T That way it could remain "easier"... Or.... Or, completely rethinking it: NewAddToMenu "AppMenu" + "" MenuStyle SidePixmap + "" MenuStyle SideColor gray + "Application Menu" Title + "" Nop + "Corporate Time" Exec /usr/local/bin/ctime + "" ItemStyle Greyed + "" ItemStyle Hotkey T That could get ugly at some level, but would keep it backwards compatible. Obviously for the "MenuStyle" and "ItemStyle" commands it would "assume" the current menu or the 'last menu item in this menu'. It would also refrain from showing the ""'s for MenuStyle and ItemStyle lines. Granted, that would prevent users from being able to set a menu item that would adjust MenuStyle or ItemStyle... so....... Lessee. NewAddToMenu "AppMenu" + "" PassMenuStyle SidePixmap + "" PassMenuStyle SideColor gray + "Application Menu" Title + "" Nop + "Corporate Time" Exec /usr/local/bin/ctime + "" PassItemStyle Greyed + "" PassItemStyle Hotkey T maybe some sort of command that "doesn't exist anywhere else"? Obviously just end up being a modified version of the 'full' command that would call the full command with the proper arguments? I'm not sure I like the naming scheme of "PassItemStyle", but something like that... Alternatively: NewAddToMenu "AppMenu" * MenuStyle SidePixmap * MenuStyle SideColor gray + "Application Menu" Title + "" Nop + "Corporate Time" Exec /usr/local/bin/ctime * ItemStyle Greyed * ItemStyle Hotkey T Simply add a new initial marker of sorts for the special "these are config lines, not menu items". This would make the old menus as backwards compatible as we can make them. For the time being have the menu routines go ahead and continue to parse the Label for options as well, maybe making 'comments' saying "please switch to the new style of styling your menu/items" or something. As Dominik pointed out, we'd have to parse the labels anyway for tabs, so "sure why not". Last but not least, there's a "mod to what I said before" of: NewAddToMenu "AppMenu" + MenuStyle SidePixmap "ninja.xpm" + MenuStyle SideColor gray + "Application Menu" Title + "" Nop + "Corporate Time" Exec /usr/local/bin/ctime + ItemStyle Greyed + ItemStyle Hotkey T Where the "after the +" arg there is parsed for whether it's MenuStyle or ItemStyle... if so, treat it as a style option, if not, it's a menu item. If a user wanted to have ItemStyle or MenuStyle as a menu label for some reason they could simply put it in quotes? Daniel -- /\\\----------------------------------------------------------------------///\ \ \\\ Daniel Henninger http://www.vorpalcloud.org/ /// / \_\\\ North Carolina State University - Systems Programmer ///_/ \\\ Information Technology <IT> /// """--------------------------------------------------------------""" -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
