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Re: Finding location of current menu

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In message <ae07e9e3-7e1f-43de-a6c3-83b8e2b1bbac@googlegroups.com>
 on 31 Jan 2020 news@sprow.co.uk wrote:

> On Thursday, 30 January 2020 23:43:19 UTC, Matthew Phillips  wrote:
> > Menus are implemented as windows, but handled by the Wimp, as I
> > understand it.
> > 
> > In RiscOSM you can open a menu to view web pages relating to the item on
> > the map.  The software used to open the menu straight away, just showing
> > the links we could calculated direct from the map data.  A few versions
> > ago we enhanced it to look up the map item in Wikidata and obtain a wider
> > range of web links from there.  This came at a price: the menu does not
> > open immediately because the Wikidata API has to be called and return its
> > results, so we have a timeout (defaulting to five seconds) after which
> > the basic links appear and the Wikidata lookup is abandoned.
> 
> If it's just a single flat menu (no submenus) could you, having noted that
> the Wimp constructs menus from windows and icons just the same as any
> other, create your own menu handling routines which create it as a normal
> window? You'd then be free to manipulate it as a normal window.

Yes, that would be an option. Hilary changed the bookmarks menu in RiscOSM
recently to implement it as a window that looks like a menu. This allowed her
to add an edit and a delete icon next to each menu item to make it easier to
change the bookmarks.

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-30 23:43 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-01-31 08:10 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu news@sprow.co.uk - 2020-01-31 00:55 -0800
    Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-02 13:19 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-02-02 20:12 +0000
  Re: Finding location of current menu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-01-31 22:45 +0000
    Re: Finding location of current menu Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2020-02-01 20:38 +0100
    Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-02 13:17 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu Terry Kelly <tk@cestriant.plus.com> - 2020-02-02 16:45 +0000
        Re: Finding location of current menu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-02-02 19:44 +0000
      Re: Finding location of current menu svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2020-02-14 06:48 -0800
        Re: Finding location of current menu Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-02-14 22:03 +0000
          Re: Finding location of current menu svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2020-02-19 10:45 -0800

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