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jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:

>If you are really concerned about icon tags taking up a lot of sapce, then
>I suggest that icon tags are either:
>  * 8 bytes of text, or
>  * 4 bytes of text/an integer.

>It would be fine to use sequential numbers as tags, so long as once a number
>is assigned to an icon, it is not renumbered by any change of position...
>Yup... Note also, though, that using a 4-byte number, we can also use
>numbers with weird 'values' such as:

>  Wimp_GetIconInfo(mainwindow, 'ICok',...)

And together with the already mentioned Window and icon pre- and suffixes
this should give enough possibilites to create an external tag for icons.

>>Yes, it would.  What about defining the menu format in the Glass file ?

>Already a proposition put forward. This would define menu entries and
>build menus from them. Each menu entry is tagged and contains some msgtransed
>text (e.g. the 'quit' item might contain the text 'Quit'). The support code
>will support extra stuff like ESG groups for tickable items, and proper
>handling of stuff like shading icons (shade an item with a submenu link
>and the submenu will still appear, only shaded, as in Acorn's Style Guide)

>This will also allow users to edit the menu layout completely, i.e. move
>'quit' into a submenu so that it's actually main -> go away -> die -> quit
>and the main program will still quite happily quit when 'quit' is selected.

And COPY items to other places, so they are available more than once, eg.
a save entry could be placed in a deeply nested menu, to allow saving after
a frequently used function.

>A mechanism would also ve included for automatically handling hotkeys for
>a menu item, so the user can change most of the key-bindings as well.

That's a must in my eyes. I never found key-bindings i liked. 

Olaf.

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