I think this would be a very nice feature. It may be what makes reloading custom keys difficult for instance.
If it is easier, there is probably no need to destroy the top level menus (File Edit Help). Its just the submenus that are most usefully dynamic. ----- Original Message ----- From: bill lam <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Changing the text of a menu item I guess one way to do that is to add a new wd cmd (eg menuclear) to clear all menu so that we can start add menu to the form again. Вс, 13 сен 2015, Chris Burke написал(а): > > My form takes a noticeable time to repaint. I don't want to do that. > > I am a little surprised by this. Does your repaint include some computation > that could have been done up front? > > > 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! > > How did you do that? > > I suppose we should allow redefining the menubar on the fly. > > > > On 13 September 2015 at 05:32, 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 -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
