I think the behavior you described is a bug in jqt. On Sep 13, 2015 8:32 PM, "Ian Clark" <[email protected]> wrote:
> My form takes a noticeable time to repaint. I don't want to do that. > > But I see with JQt it's possible to define two separate forms for the > same app. If one of them specifies no menus, it lets you see the menus > of the other form – even when it's got focus! At least, it does on the > Mac (…under Snow Leopard). > > I conjecture it's possible to split my form into a menu-less and a > menus-only form. The latter will be a lot less pain to recreate – and > easily reconfigured like this: > > wd MYMENUSONLY rplc 'Repeat Last Action' ; 'Repeat "Delete Line"' > > The same trick will let me offer an up-to-the-minute MRU list attached > to the File menu. > > Maybe there are gotchers. Maybe it won't work on all platforms. But > it's worth me doing some experiments. Anyone care to try it with > MSWin? (I can see a sticky "fellow traveller" being needed for the > main window, consisting only of a menubar.) > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:49 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can create a new form to replace the old, positioning exactly over > the > > old. This should happen fast enough to be unnoticeable. > > > > I cannot think of examples in J8, but this was done in J6, for example > with > > the Find and Replace dialogs. > > > > On 11 September 2015 at 15:56, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I think these functions are not implemented. > >> On Sep 12, 2015 4:50 AM, "Ian Clark" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > With jwd in JQt, how do I change the text of a given item in an > >> > existing set of menus? > >> > > >> > E.g. to state precisely what action I'm offering to Undo / Repeat / > etc? > >> > > >> > An allied problem is to add items to an existing menu, e.g. to provide > >> > a MRU facility. > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
