I combined all nice ideas suggested here. Comments are welcome.
I may help implementing new commands.
Currently we have multiple titles per menu. Several menu operations
require that a menu has only one title and I suggest to force this.
A title should be a property of the menu, not an item. Current non-top
titles may be simulated by "separator, centered item, separator" with no
item action.
There are 4 commands that work with a menu by its name:
DestroyMenu - just like the current one
AddToMenu - the old syntax, may be obsoleted later
AddMenuProperties - the new syntax
AddMenuItems - the new syntax
And probably DestroyMenuProperties and DestroyMenuItems.
The old syntax example:
DestroyMenu RootMenu
AddToMenu "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^black^"
+ "Root Menu" Title
+ "&Shells%mini-term.xpm%" Popup Shells
+ "&Remote Shells%mini-red_term.xpm%" Popup Remote-Shells
+ "" Nop
+ "S&creensaver%mini-monitor.xpm%" Exec xlock -nolock
+ "&Quit%mini-stop.xpm%" Quit
The same using the new syntax (it is longer, but more readable):
DestroyMenu RootMenu
AddMenuProperties RootMenu
+ SidePixmap "side.fvwm2.xpm"
+ SideColor black
+ Title "Root Menu"
AddMenuItems RootMenu
+ I "Shells"
+ P Icon mini-term.xpm
+ P Hotkey s
+ A Popup Shells
+ I "Remote Shells"
+ P Icon mini-red_term.xpm
+ P Hotkey r
+ A Popup Remote-Shells
+ S
+ I "Screensaver"
+ P Icon mini-monitor.xpm
+ P Hotkey c
+ A Exec xlock -nolock
+ I "Quit"
+ P Icon mini-stop.xpm
+ P Hotkey q
+ A Quit
One more example, here a menu has several columns and no title.
DestroyMenu WindowList
AddMenuItems WindowList
+ I "Desk: 0" "Geometry"
+ A (Mouse 2) FuncDoSomething
+ S
+ I "Some xterm" "80x40+100+100"
+ A FuncDeiconifyAndWarp
+ A (Mouse 3) Menu SomeMenu
+ I "Some iconified xterm" "80x40+200+200"
+ A FuncDeiconifyAndWarp
+ A (Mouse 3) Menu SomeMenu
+ P Disabled # or: Greyed
Now, a formal description of new commands:
AddMenuProperties gets parameters:
DynamicPopUpAction
DynamicPopDownAction
MissingSubmenuFunction
SidePixmap
SideColor # probably SideColorset
Title
WindowTitle # used instead of Title on tear-off
AddMenuItems gets parameters:
I or Item - starts a new item
parameters: one or more labels
S or Separator - starts a new "item", i.e. separator
parameters: TearOff?
P or Property - defines the current item property
parameters:
Icon (or Image) - multiple Icon parameters may be given
BottomImage - if we are going to continue support this
Hotkey - defines a hotkey char, here locale should be used I think
Centered - this is to emulate non-top titles
Disabled (or Greyed)
A or Action - defines the current item action
parameters:
command
(Mouse n) command
(Key k) command - maybe in the future
By default, the title is separated from items using a tear-off separator,
but this may be configured.
The title (and possibly a separator) is removed when the menu is enclosed
into a window. But now the question is what to do with multi-column
titles:
AddMenuProperties my-menu
+ Title "one column" "another column"
There are several solutions and I tend to the first one:
1) don't allow multi-column title, use multi-column item instead
2) allow multi-column title, but don't remove it on tear-off,
otherwise the menu losses some information, and it is not clear
what separator to use to join columns in a window title
3) allow multi-column titles, remove it on tear-off
Regards,
Mikhael.
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