OpenEuphoria

Re: Ideas for Tab Control: the «Load As»

• Posted by Antonio Alessi <a.admin at myway.it> Apr 20, 2006
• 508 views

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Antonio Alessi wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Al,
> > 
> > My intention was not to doubt that you could do all that:
> > I just asked you if you believed that so many arguments 
> > were going to fill all those tabs..
> > 
> > As to the menus, if you accept the idea to let !menus drive the
> > tab selection, why not to associate a popup menu to each one
> > for the Edit> paste/copy/cut/etc. (Ctrl-click or Right-click), 
> > leaving the menu items for captions only?
> > 
> > antonio
> 
> Hi Antonio,
> 
> Im not sure what you mean here, "for captions only" ?
> 
> 
> Al
> 

You are right; my Language's limitations .. :()

I mean to use every "direct" menu title as the label of an area, or action, 
which is to access a tab area (like a button without borders);
for that I improperly defined it "caption", trying to call forth a new
look for these controls. To achieve that style in the LP environment,
we should separate every usual menu action from; 
hence I thought to a popup menu that could be indifferently opened 
over each "label", for the editing of the relative tabcontrol area.

In few words, the menu items for edit should not flank the Tab definitions.

If you launch my dEbUg_magic_box you can see how I have set almost 
all the menus this way, although for direct execution commands. 
The Ctrl-click activates special funtions for some of them too (font, find..).

Moreover you can also note how the help menu may work like a normal menu;
and all the menus as well are created by a single algorithm (end of prog.)
automatically generated by the initializing sequence of definitions and 
strings.

Starting from a sequence by an INI file all the LP could be self created, 
as you are probably doing.

antonio