[Gnue-dev] Customized menus in Forms etc.

[Jan Ischebeck]

I've some additions/modifications to the technote.003 in common (about
Menus and Triggers..)
I will set the old/changed definitions in brackets behind the changes.

1. use a <menu><submenu><menuentry> structure
   to define single menu entrys or a whole menu
       (old: just <GMenu> and located by a string like "File.Save")

2. items in the standart menu could be overwriten or removed by an
   new entry with the same name 
   change it: <menuentry name="f_save" label="Save"
               event="myFSaveTrigger">
   remove it: <menuentry name="f_save" drop="Y">
   
3. don't create a seperate <toolbar> tag, but add an <option> to
   the <menuentry> tag to make it appear in the toolbar.
   (old: Toolbars link directly to menu items ....)

4. a sample menu
...

<menu>
   <submenu name="File">
      <menuentry name="Load" action="_load_a_form">
         <options>
             <option value="load.png"  name="icon"/>
             <option value="Y" name="toolbar"/>
         </options>
      </menuentry>
      <menuentry name="Save" disabled="Y"/> <!-- to show Save in grey -->
      <menuentry name="Save_As" drop="Y"/>  <!-- and remove Save As -->
      <menuentry name="sep" type="seperator"/>
      <submenu name="Recent files" init="list_recentfiles">
       ...
      </submenu>
  </submenu>
  ...
</menu>

5. all <menuXXX> elements can hold an attribut "init", which defines a trigger
which should be called when this element will be added to the menu bar.

f.e.  <submenu label="My Forms" init="addFormFileLinksFromDirectory">

(old: If a GMenu is of type dynamic the trigger will be used to 
manipulate the submenu selections prior to displaying. )


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