Suggestions for FB^3
Posted by: friedo <friedo@...>
Second, I was reading over the cool new features for FB^3 and I had an
idea. Making menus with the standard MENU command can get a little
annoying because you have to assign each item an ID number. I was
thinking of something like:
BEGIN MENU MenuName
ITEM ItemName, ItemRefNum, [Atrribs]
...
END MENU
This would provide a few advantages:
1: It's easier to look at
2: ItemRefNums don't have to be in any particular order, as long as
they're unique
3: This would make contextual menus really easy, because you could do
BEGIN MENU "My Example Menu"
ITEM "First Item", 1
ITEM "Second Item", 2, checkedBoolean 'Checked if true
IF ConditionExists THEN ITEM "Third Item", 3
ITEM "Fourth Item", 4
...
END MENU
In this case, the third item would only show up if ConditionExists is
true. If it's false, then the fourth item becomes the third, but still
has the refnum of 4.
This structure would also allow one to use the old style MENU commands as
well, if one wished.
Just a thought...lemme know what you guys think. 😉
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