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Re: Interface to the generic menu and toolbar
- To: Insight List <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>, Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>, Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Interface to the generic menu and toolbar
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:06:50 -0500
- Organization: Red Hat Canada
- References: <3A707CAD.D216180F@redhat.com>
Nobody objected (what is reasonable -- the Tk and iwidgets style cannot
be that bad) so I went ahead and did it. I will soon have a description
as part of the new Plugin facility (I am still writting it).
* library/gdbmenubar.itcl (constructor): Remove unused code.
(add): New method. Emulate the style of the menubar iwidget commands.
(menubar_show): Old name.
(show): New name.
(menubar_menu_exists): Old name.
(exists): New name.
(menubar_clear_menu): Old name.
(clear): New name.
(menubar_delete_menu): Old name.
(delete): New name.
(menubar_new_menu): Make private. Does not return anything.
(menubar_add_menu_command): Make private.
(menubar_add_menu_separator): Ditto.
(menubar_change_menu_state): Ditto.
* library/srcbar.itcl: Adjust to the above syntax.
* library/plugins/plugins.tcl: Ditto.
* library/plugins/rhabout/rhabout.itcl: Ditto.
Fernando Nasser wrote:
>
> The existent interface to the menubar (which uses Tk menu) is
> currently:
>
> # GDBMenuBar
> public method menubar_show {}
> public method set_class_state {enable_list}
> method menubar_new_menu {name label underline}
> method menubar_menu_exists {name}
> method menubar_clear_menu {name}
> method menubar_add_menu_separator {}
> method menubar_add_menu_command {class label command args}
> method menubar_change_menu_state {menu state}
> method menubar_set_current_menu {menup}
>
> Note that the code currently uses positional parameters.
>
> I would like to make this more like iwidgets (or even Tk), with
> commands and arguments.
>
> For instance:
>
> $Menu add menubutton <name> -label <label> -underline <pos>
>
> instead of
>
> $Menu menubar_new_menu <name> <label> <pos>
>
> I don't mean we should have all the operations the iwidget menubar has
> or that
> we do not add some operations we find useful. I am just talking about
> the style.
> We do have some extra functionality anyway (like the classes that can be
> enabled/disabled).
> We could keep the names of the options that are equivalent the same
> though.
>
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Fernando Nasser
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