RE: fljed: question about menus

[SANGOI DINO <SANGOID@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marko Mahnic [mailto:marko.mahnic@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: martedì 22 febbraio 2005 14.42
> Subject: fljed: question about menus
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I am working on the native FLTK menus for fljed. I have 
> implemented the basic functions to build the menus with just 
> one minor modification to the existing jedlib files 
> (evalfile("popups.sl") in jedrc).
> 
> My question is this: if I am able to make the fljed menus 
> behave pretty much like the text-mode menus, should fljed use 
> only the native menus or should it also have support for 
> text-mode menus?
> 
> One thing that would be hard (but not impossible) to 
> implement in native menus is invoking menus from within a 
> recorded keyboard macro.


My 2c are:

- If you can implement native menus with the same (programming) interface of
standard (text-mode) menus, go for it.
- Recorded macros may or may not be a big problem. I don't use macros that
much, if I have some repetitive task to do, I write a slang script :))
- As Guenter has already asked, compatibile configuration and interaction
with slang script is much more important: This is why I hate custom Windows
menus: those have a completely separated configuration and API.
- Keeping the old text mode menus should be easy: all the code is already
there.

IMHO, jed should call menu functions through pointers, like already does for
tt_* functions. This way different frontends can have a custom
implementation.

Ciao,
					Dino


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