On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tony Trinh <tony19@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to add a new menu in the Menubar, like "Menubar/Blah" and
>>>> place it before help, and after the tools menu (and probably before
>>>> Internals).
>>>>
>>>> I would like to do it from Lua.
>>>>
>>>> I think I can see how to do this, but I wonder if anyone else has done
>>>> that before?
>>>>
>>> WSLua does not support adding main menus. Currently, you can only add submenus to
>>> existing menus.
>>
>> You are correct. The problem would seem to be twofold:
>>
>> 1. There is no function for doing that, and
>>
>> 2. In ui/gtk/funnel_stat.c, the stat_group_name function contains a
>> static value_string of the relationships between values like
>> REGISTER_STAT_GROUP_UNSORTED and the string to use for the menu item.
>>
>> Functions/methods would have to be added to allow new menu items to be
>> added to allow the addition of whole new menus, but
>> register_lua_menu_bar_menu_items and its subsidiary functions seem
>> capable of this, as well as functions/methods to enter new values in
>> VALS_GROUP_NAMES and to retrieve the index based on the string.
>
> I had to make a bunch of changes to this code (in r41591) to get the Lua
> menus working again. And I wasn't terribly happy with the result; it
> seems quite a bit of a mess to me. But I didn't have a better idea at
> the time...
Sure. I don't really have any criticism of your work. I would only
suggest that VALS_GROUP_NAMES should be all lower case so that it does
not look like a macro etc, unless, that is, there is a rule covering
this case.
In addition, I think that what is there is fine for current needs.
I just have new needs, which I think others might have as well.
However, I should post a new message about this. I can see two approaches:
1. A free-for-all by Lua plugins where they can add their own menus
and things become ugly, or
2. A single plugins menu where each Lua plugin gets its own section in
a well defined manner.
However, for backward compatibility, the current situation would have
to be supported as well.
--
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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