Jeremy Hankins <[email protected]> writes: > Another way would be to be able to specify a predicate function to do > the filtering. The function would be passed a record and would return > true or false to indicate whether or not to include it in the menu. You > could define a couple of standard functions (which would be able to be > called from within user-provided functions) to do common things (e.g., > to do the sort of filtering that t or nil would do). That way the > apps-menu-display-all would be simple to use for novices (it could still > take options like t and nil) but if its value is a function (or even a > lisp form?) instead of t or nil that would be the predicate used. If > you wanted, you could even get a bit fancier, and allow the function to > modify the record (i.e., the function would return the record, possibly > modified, or nil indicating not to include it). That way a power user > could, e.g., rename certain entries or maybe even categories easily. > > Just an idea; I don't know how easy it would be to work this into your > current system.
Yes, I like this idea, it can certainly be added into the system, I'll see what I can do to get this working. Thanks for the input! -- mrl
